. Emblems . y ? Heava thought good Left man fhould feed in fweat; not work in blood : Why doft thou wound th»already wounded brcalt ? Ah me ! my life is but a pain at beft: I am but dying duft: my dayj a fpan ; What pleafure takft thou in the blood of man ? Spare, fpare thy fcourge, and be not fo auftere ? Send fewer ftroaks, or lend more ftrcngth to bear* S, BERN? Book 3. Emhlemes. 143 S. BERN. Horn. Si. in Cant. Mi\tribU mm ! whJhiU deliver me from the reproich ofthis fhnne fid bouiigc ? 1 amt, mi[crdbk man but a free nin;free, beciuie a mjtn • rnifersble, beaufe a fcrvint: In regiriof my bo


. Emblems . y ? Heava thought good Left man fhould feed in fweat; not work in blood : Why doft thou wound th»already wounded brcalt ? Ah me ! my life is but a pain at beft: I am but dying duft: my dayj a fpan ; What pleafure takft thou in the blood of man ? Spare, fpare thy fcourge, and be not fo auftere ? Send fewer ftroaks, or lend more ftrcngth to bear* S, BERN? Book 3. Emhlemes. 143 S. BERN. Horn. Si. in Cant. Mi\tribU mm ! whJhiU deliver me from the reproich ofthis fhnne fid bouiigc ? 1 amt, mi[crdbk man but a free nin;free, beciuie a mjtn • rnifersble, beaufe a fcrvint: In regiriof my bojtdjge, miienbie^ in rej^irdof mytvilJ, inexcufible :For my. will, that wis free, bsjldved it felf to fin, ky ajfinting10 fin; for be tbit committetb fin, is tbefcrviiit to fin. EPIG. 4. Tax not thy God: Thine own default« did urgeThis two-fold punifhment *, the mill, the fini the author of thy fcif tormenting :Thou grindTt for rmniPg; rcourg.*d for not rep^Dtiog. K 4 144 Emllemei. Book 3. hajfl maJc rn^ aj th^CLy ^nHiti/u^rv V/<v/ ft?.* //tec du^l.^/foJtr^ :Tc^ j^ .; Book 3. Emhlemes. 145: JOB ; Rememher Ihefeecb theCy that thou haft mademe as the clay, and wilt thou Iring me toduft again ? THas from the bofom of the new tn^ade earth ^Poor man was delvJ, and had his unborn birth;The fame the fcuff, the fclf fame hand doth tr«mThe plant that fades, the beaft that dies, and htm :One was their fire, one was their common are his fifters, and the beaft bis elder too 5 beafcs draw the fclf-farae old alike, and die the felf-fame death :Plants grow as he, with fairer robes arraiM ;Alike they flourifh, and alike they fade :The beaft in fenfc exceeds him, and thrce-agd Oak doth thrice exceed them both:Why lookTt thou then fo big, thou little fpaaOf earth ^ what art thou more in being m^n ?I, but thy great Creator did infpireMy chofcn earth, with thy diviner fireOf rcafongaveme judgment and a will:That, to know


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