. Religious emblems and allegories : a series of engravings, with suitable letter-press, designed to illustrate divine truth . the road lullto sleep his spiritual sense. Sin, like a serpent, now, assails him;he has no strength to resist; he falls a victim to his folly and guilt;and remorse stings him to the quick. Fool that J was, heexclaims. Oh! that I had continued in the path of duty. It is toolate. Wretched man, self-indulgence has proved his ruin. The disobedient prophet fell a victim to self-indulgence, when heturned aside to eat bread and drink water, and a lion met him bythe way and sl
. Religious emblems and allegories : a series of engravings, with suitable letter-press, designed to illustrate divine truth . the road lullto sleep his spiritual sense. Sin, like a serpent, now, assails him;he has no strength to resist; he falls a victim to his folly and guilt;and remorse stings him to the quick. Fool that J was, heexclaims. Oh! that I had continued in the path of duty. It is toolate. Wretched man, self-indulgence has proved his ruin. The disobedient prophet fell a victim to self-indulgence, when heturned aside to eat bread and drink water, and a lion met him bythe way and slew him. The five foolish virgins, also, whoslumbered and slept when they ought to have been watching,fell by the same insidious foe. They awoke in outer darkness, andfound the door of the kingdom of heaven fast closed against themfor ever. If any man will be iiiy disciple, said the Saviour, let him denyhimself, take up his cross, and follow me. To them who bypatient continuance in well-doing seek for glory, and honour, andimmortality: eternal life. He that emluret/i to the end, the iameshall be saved. RELIGIOUS Surely thou didst set them in sHppery places: thou castdest them down intodestruction.—Ps. Ixxiii. i6. CARNAL SECURITY. See here pourtrayed, a gently rising ground,With tulips gay, and blooming roses crowned;Where flowers of various hues, or gay or fair,Mingle their sweetness with the balmy air;While woodland minstrels stoop upon the wing,Attune their notes, and softest carols sing;A youth lies sleeping on the roseate bed,Heedless of dangers, thus to ruin led ;A horrid gulf of thickest night is hope neer comes, but darkness and despair ;A turn—a move—and in the gulf hell roll,Where fiery billows prey upon the soul. It is by ascending a gently rising ground, and not by overleap-ing abrupt precipices, that the youth attains his dangerous position—his bad eminence. Sin is first pleasing, then easy, then delightful,then confirmed,—then the man
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