. Pia desideria: or, divine addresses : in three books. Illustrated with XLVII. copper-plates . r-difiant bUfsAppears minute to cur miftaken Eyes, Ah! (i9o) Ah! vj^hy, my Country^ 5iit thou placd fb far,Thw^t I am ftilj a tedious wnffderer ? Happier the Exiles of old Heathen Rome,Whom only Tiber did divide from home!While to remoter bantfhment delignd,A vaft Ahyfs twixt Heavn and me I Hebrew Jlaves were freed ith Jubilee 3Unhappier Vafal! I fliall neer be fwift fore-runner of the vvelcom SpringFinds after Winters cold a time to fing:She who did long in dark recefles f
. Pia desideria: or, divine addresses : in three books. Illustrated with XLVII. copper-plates . r-difiant bUfsAppears minute to cur miftaken Eyes, Ah! (i9o) Ah! vj^hy, my Country^ 5iit thou placd fb far,Thw^t I am ftilj a tedious wnffderer ? Happier the Exiles of old Heathen Rome,Whom only Tiber did divide from home!While to remoter bantfhment delignd,A vaft Ahyfs twixt Heavn and me I Hebrew Jlaves were freed ith Jubilee 3Unhappier Vafal! I fliall neer be fwift fore-runner of the vvelcom SpringFinds after Winters cold a time to fing:She who did long in dark recefles flies abroad and refalutes the ftill I live excluded from above^Denyd the Obje^lof my Blifsand , hade, mj God, and take me up toThee jThere let me live, where I was made to be :Or if my Bodfs freedoms not defignM,So foon, at leaft, I will be there in mnd. Aug, 090 Aug. Serm. 43, There are two tormentors of the Soul, whichdo not torture it together^ but by turns \their names are and Grief: tVhenit is well with you^ you fear ; when ill,you grieve. VIIL 0 wretcki ( 19^ ). r O TirreleheiL tnaJL thati{rmJwhuJJudl dclurcT-mzefrcTirL thzJbo^of ihu dealrLTR^rm y-24 (193) VIII. 0 wretched man that lam ! who [haH deliverme from the body ofthU death 1 T T THere are the loft delights for which IgrUve^V V But which myforrorps never cair retrieve t Such vaft delights but mention not the lofs^ Whofe fad remembrance is thy greateft crofssAnd Fate is kindeft when it robs us take away omfenfe offuffering ourfirft Parents folly we exclaim,Asif7/7(fjy only were, 2^ firft^ tobhme:On Eve ^ we difcharge our thus exfofe our naked Parentage,Tho thou who thy Fkft Parents doft condemn^,Thou oughtft to blame thy felf as well as Life at one rafh Caft was thrown away»Thou didft, as well as thy Forefather, I (alafs!) condemn not them while I mind their faU^ forget my Eve I was confentingto the
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