. Emblems and hieroglyphics on a great variety of subjects, moral and Emblished with near an hundred emblematical cuts from Quarles Emblems . oth Bird and Beaft,The hugeft and the very leaft, The Plant, and Flowr and Grain iWe were all Brethren at the all by 4dams Sin were cursd,All muft to Earth again. The Man, here behold Origin,Ere yet thy Glory was defacd by thou wast raisd from Earths Bed,From thence thou lifted!* up thy manly Head jFormd by thy Maker from an earthly Clod,I Who opd thy Eyes and bid thee look Abroad ;He gave the
. Emblems and hieroglyphics on a great variety of subjects, moral and Emblished with near an hundred emblematical cuts from Quarles Emblems . oth Bird and Beaft,The hugeft and the very leaft, The Plant, and Flowr and Grain iWe were all Brethren at the all by 4dams Sin were cursd,All muft to Earth again. The Man, here behold Origin,Ere yet thy Glory was defacd by thou wast raisd from Earths Bed,From thence thou lifted!* up thy manly Head jFormd by thy Maker from an earthly Clod,I Who opd thy Eyes and bid thee look Abroad ;He gave thee and Reafon, Life and Soul,And the whole World fubmitted to thy Rule !Happy as Angels was thy Being firft,Till, Devil-like, by thy Ambition Makers Image thro thy Mean, was loft 5And what can now poor wretched Mortals boaft fFrom Sin to Sin by evry Paffion whirld,Were made the Jeft and Proverb of the pride thyfclf no more* O Man of Earth 1Of thy great Lineage, or ennobled Birth ;When Death mail feize thee, as it quickly muft,A Clay-cold Ccrpfe thou art, foon turnd to Duft.£> 4 $0 HlEROGLYPHICKS, Book III EMBLEM In vain we would with God contend jA dreadful Foe—the kindeft receive what he inflias>It is a Father s Hand corrects. Book III. M or a L and Divine. BtEMBLEM VI. Humility Mans Duty. PRefumptuous Man! durft thou provokeTh Almighty Gods avenging Stroke ?Shall a poor Worm, that crawls and dies,Againft his Great Creator rife r Lower, vain Man, thy haughty CreftjHumility becomes thee bell;Rebellious Weapons throw away ;Fall on thy Knees and Pardon pray. No longer in thy Strength confide ;Who can his dreadful Wrath abide ?Fall at his Feet, his Mercy crave,Nor more Almighty Vengeance brave. The Moral. See here, and weep degenerate Nature tracMFrom the firft Sin, by which it was to Rebellion,* into Life we come,And this we practice till we reach the Tomb;In Sin advancing, as our Age proceeds,Still heaping Coals
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