. Quarles' Emblems . my suit ?No key can lock the door of my complaint,Until I smell this flowr, or taste that fruit. Go, virgins, seek this tree, and search that bowr ;O, how my soul shall bless that happy hour,That brings to me such fruit, that brings me such aflowr! Quarles Emblems. (ris n \. in Cap. ii. (lant Expos. happy sickness, where the infirmity is not to death, butto life, that GOD may be glorified by it! () happy fever, thaiproceedeth not from a consuming, hut a calcining fire I < Ihappy distemper, wherein the soul relisheth no earthly tinhut only savoureth divine nourishmen
. Quarles' Emblems . my suit ?No key can lock the door of my complaint,Until I smell this flowr, or taste that fruit. Go, virgins, seek this tree, and search that bowr ;O, how my soul shall bless that happy hour,That brings to me such fruit, that brings me such aflowr! Quarles Emblems. (ris n \. in Cap. ii. (lant Expos. happy sickness, where the infirmity is not to death, butto life, that GOD may be glorified by it! () happy fever, thaiproceedeth not from a consuming, hut a calcining fire I < Ihappy distemper, wherein the soul relisheth no earthly tinhut only savoureth divine nourishment ! S. Bern, in Serm. H. {lowers, understand faith ; by fruit, good works. Asthe flower or blossom is before the fruit, so is faith beforegood works : so neither is the fruit without the flower, norgood works without faith. EPIG. apples, O my soul ? can they removeThe pains of grief, or ease the flames of love ?It was that fruit which gave the first offence ;That sent him hither ; that removd him
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