. Pia desideria; or, Divine addresses, in three books. Illustrated with XLVII. copper-plates . Like a Ship toft between the Wind and , the Bawd to Vice, here draws me in,Therei Grief^ its FollowV, pulls me back from Sin:Yet Pleafure oft comes Conqueror from the Field,Whilft I to Vice, inglorious Homage yield. ....Tho Grief does ftill with Vice in triumph ride,Placd, like a Slave by that great Conjurors Vice and Virtue have alternate fway,While I, with endlefs labour, Both obey:And to increafe my pains, as if too fmall,Thy heavy hand comes in the rear of all,And with deep
. Pia desideria; or, Divine addresses, in three books. Illustrated with XLVII. copper-plates . Like a Ship toft between the Wind and , the Bawd to Vice, here draws me in,Therei Grief^ its FollowV, pulls me back from Sin:Yet Pleafure oft comes Conqueror from the Field,Whilft I to Vice, inglorious Homage yield. ....Tho Grief does ftill with Vice in triumph ride,Placd, like a Slave by that great Conjurors Vice and Virtue have alternate fway,While I, with endlefs labour, Both obey:And to increafe my pains, as if too fmall,Thy heavy hand comes in the rear of all,And with deep piercing ftrokes corrects me more,For what was puninYd in it felf guilty Souls in. Hell are fcourgd for Sin -3Their never-ending Tains thus flill begin. Canftthou, unkind I behold my wretched Fate?Canft thou behold, and notCommiferate?Look on, O fee if cauflefs I complain! 0 hold thy Hand, and mitigate my Pain! Aug. in Pfal. xxxvi. 1 fuppofe the World is called a Mill, becaufe it isturnd about on the Wheels of Time, and grindsand crufhes thofe that moft admire it. V. Remem- OO. <*7) V. Remember, I befeech thety that thou haftmade me as the Clayy and wilt thou bringme into Duft again f Job x, 9. H AS Providence regard to things below ?Or does it flight what its not fieaidto knowThat the great Author of this brittle FrameForgets from what Original it came ? Ages, to Thee are but as yefterday:And canfl thouy Lord, forget thy humble Clay ?Formd with a touch, and quickened with a breath 5In one floort moment made, and doomd to thou haft this forgot, receive from meThe ftrange relation of the this great Fabrick^of the World was reafd%And its Original Nothing difaff ear d,Then, in the clofe of the Sixth bufie day,Thou with a glance didft the whole Work furveyiAnd f leas d with that fair frodtiU of thy Powr,Wotfdft cofyH o^er again in Miniature 5 Then (28) Then was with all the Art of Heavn defignd,The mortal Image of th immortal Eden wa
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