. Choice emblems, divine and moral, antient and modern, or, Delights for the ingenious, in above fifty select emblems , curiously ingraven upon copper-plates : with fifty pleasant poems and lots, by way of lottery, for illustrating each emblem to promote instruction and good counsel by diverting recreation . Tro Lege 1^ pro Grege. The divine and Moral. ay. THE Seventh EmblemIlluftrated. Our Felican^ b) bleeding thus^Fulfill^d the LarVy and cured us. LOok here and mark (her fickly Birds to feed)How freely this kind (Pelican doth how (when other Salves coud not be found)To cure their S
. Choice emblems, divine and moral, antient and modern, or, Delights for the ingenious, in above fifty select emblems , curiously ingraven upon copper-plates : with fifty pleasant poems and lots, by way of lottery, for illustrating each emblem to promote instruction and good counsel by diverting recreation . Tro Lege 1^ pro Grege. The divine and Moral. ay. THE Seventh EmblemIlluftrated. Our Felican^ b) bleeding thus^Fulfill^d the LarVy and cured us. LOok here and mark (her fickly Birds to feed)How freely this kind (Pelican doth how (when other Salves coud not be found)To cure their Sorrows, fhe her felf doth wound :And when this holy Emblem thou flialt fee,Lift up thy Soul to him who dyd for thee. For this our Hiercglyphick woud exprefs,That Telicafj^ which in the Wildernefs C a Of a 8 Choice Emhlems^ of this vaft WorUy was left (as all alone)Our miferable Nature to bemoan jAnd in whofe Eyes the Tears of Pity flood,When he beheld his own unthankful BroodHis Favours and his Mercies then contemn,When with his Wings he woud have brooded them?And fought their endlefs Peace to have confirmd,Tho to procure his Ruin they were armd. To be their Food himfelf he freely gave 5His Heart was piercd, that he their Souls might they difobeyd the Sacred WillyHe did the Law of Right eouffzefs fulfil 5And to that end (tho guiltlefs
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