. Emblems, divine and moral : The school of the heart; and Hieroglyphics of the life of man . Ah me ! my life is but a pain at best: I am but dying dust: my day s a span ; What pleasure takth thou in the blood of man ? io8 EMBLEMS. book hi. Spare, spare thy scourge, and be not so austere :Send fewer strokes, or lend more strength to bear. S. Bern. Horn. Ixxxi. in man ! who shall deliver me from the re-proach of this shameful bondage ? I am a miserableman, but a free man j free, because a man \ miserable,because a servant : in regard of my bondage, miserable jin regard of my will
. Emblems, divine and moral : The school of the heart; and Hieroglyphics of the life of man . Ah me ! my life is but a pain at best: I am but dying dust: my day s a span ; What pleasure takth thou in the blood of man ? io8 EMBLEMS. book hi. Spare, spare thy scourge, and be not so austere :Send fewer strokes, or lend more strength to bear. S. Bern. Horn. Ixxxi. in man ! who shall deliver me from the re-proach of this shameful bondage ? I am a miserableman, but a free man j free, because a man \ miserable,because a servant : in regard of my bondage, miserable jin regard of my will, inexcusable : for my will, thatwas free, beslaved itself to sin, by assenting to sin; forhe that committeth sin, is the servant to sin. Epig. 4. Tax not thy God : thine own defaults did urgeThis twofold punishment : the mill, the sin ^s the author of thy self-tormenting:Thou grindst for sinning j scourgM for not repenting. EMBLEMS. 109. JOB X. 9. Remember^ I beseech thee^ that thou hast made me as theclay ; and wilt thou bring me into dust again ? npHUS from the bosom of the new-made earth- Poor man was delvM, and had his unborn birth ;The same the stuff, the self-same hand doth trimThe plant that fades, the beast that dies, and was their fire, one was their common mother,Plants are his sisters, and the beast his brother,The elder too \ beasts drew the self-same breath,Wax old alike, and die the self-same death :Plants grow as he, with fairer robes arrayM \Alike they flourish, and alike they fade : EMBLEMS. The beast in sense exceeds him, and, in growth, The three-agM oak doth thrice exceed them both. Why look^st thou then so big, thou Httle span Of earth ; what art thou more in being man ? I, but my great Creator did inspire My chosen earth, with the diviner fire Of reason ; gave me judgment and a will ; That, to know good ; this, to choose good from ill He puts the reins of powV in my free hand, A jurisdict
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