. Religious allegories : being a series of emblematic engravings, with written explanations, miscellaneous observations, and religious reflections, designed to illustrate divine truth, in accordance with the cardinal principles of Christianity . soul of the pious. Sometimes, slander, grown bold, like a hungrywolf, attacks the reputation of the man of God, asShimei assailed David in the day of his adversity. Envy is known to plot in secret the destruction ofthat excellence she cannot reach ; while/ra?^</takesadvantage of the unsuspecting child of God, andseeks to draw him into sin and troubl
. Religious allegories : being a series of emblematic engravings, with written explanations, miscellaneous observations, and religious reflections, designed to illustrate divine truth, in accordance with the cardinal principles of Christianity . soul of the pious. Sometimes, slander, grown bold, like a hungrywolf, attacks the reputation of the man of God, asShimei assailed David in the day of his adversity. Envy is known to plot in secret the destruction ofthat excellence she cannot reach ; while/ra?^</takesadvantage of the unsuspecting child of God, andseeks to draw him into sin and trouble. In themidst of his persecutions, the Christian would fainborrow the wings of the dove, and seek refuge insome vast wilderness, some boundless contiguityof shade, or rather, the wings of some heavenlycherub ; then would he fly to mansions of eternal re-pose, where the wicked cease from troubling, andwhere the weary are forever at rest. When rising floods my soul oerflow,When sinks my heart in waves of wo,Jesus, thy timely aid impart,And raise my head, and cheer my heart. If rough and stormy be the way,My strength proportion to my day,Till toil, and grief, a^d pain shall cease,Where all is calm, and joy, and peace. RELIGIOUS EMBLEMS 73. O urctchrd man that I am ! who shall deliver me from the body of thisdeath ? Rom. vii. 24. THE SOUL IN BONDAGE. Horror of horrors I what a sight is here ILife hnked with death, in terror and cruel tyrants, when they won the wont to punish those compel Id to wounded captive, writhing still with pain,Was made to wear the adamantine chain,That round the limbs of one new-slain was led,And bonnd the living to the putrid , choked with stench, the lingering victim lay,And breathed in agony his life away. Tis thus the soul, enlightend by the word,Descries the path that upward leads to God ;And fain would run, but feels a galling chain,That quickly drags him to the world againCorruptions body opens to his
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