. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures, . who lookcs with heedie cie ,And labors moft to kecpe a confcicnce pure ^And doubtcs to trcade, in errors pathes awrie: That man is blcft, and deemed happic fure: When vicious pcrfons, even vnto their graues,Arc lewdc affcdions, and their vices flaues. For as the Lion, that hath dipt his band,Or fheard the chaine, that did his courage hold,Doth not in awe, of churHfh keeper ftand,But fince is waxen, more couragious bold: The righteous man ^ fo from hells bondage free ,Ha
. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures, . who lookcs with heedie cie ,And labors moft to kecpe a confcicnce pure ^And doubtcs to trcade, in errors pathes awrie: That man is blcft, and deemed happic fure: When vicious pcrfons, even vnto their graues,Arc lewdc affcdions, and their vices flaues. For as the Lion, that hath dipt his band,Or fheard the chaine, that did his courage hold,Doth not in awe, of churHfh keeper ftand,But fince is waxen, more couragious bold: The righteous man ^ fo from hells bondage free ,Hath hcartes content, ioind with his libertie • « lafil t Doron. Ardua res C*fiir gcntf s «lomuifle rebellcs,Fcrrc» Sauromatum ct colla dedifle iugo : * Duo advcrfiffi- Latius rcgnes avidum domandoSpiritum j quam fi Lybiam lenioti»Gadibus iungas ct vterque PanusServxat vni. Vcf;us at vincis tua cum vindiika Iac«ffii, * Peftora, cc banc poceris fumcrc nolle tarnen. marc^* menti Celeritas ct Ira >Thucididcs. Horat. carm:lib : s. Ode s Vulrterat Ba(il: Doron. Augaft; de vcr«bit Apoft: 8? Vulnerai, Hie me demur •. np HIS Sword, a Symbolc of the Law, doth threatc -*• Perpetiiall death, to all of Adams race:But yet th Ahnightie, of his mercie greate,Sendes, after fentcnce, pardon of his grace:For when he found vs, maimed on the ground,With wine, and oile of grace, he the wound. Our partes it is, fince by the Law we fee, The fearefuli ftate, and daunger we are in , To doe our beft, then to his mercie flee, And new againe, our finfuU Hues begin : Not truflin^ to our deedes, and merits vaine,Since nought but death, doth due to thcfe rcmainc • lafla licet fcros Ad« fub lege ncpotciIinpcuca tcrgo vinHicis Ira Dei, Vniushic prjeflatineJicainina gratia ChrlftiVulncrc nc pcreas quam redivivus habcf. Si Icvii moibus effet, medicus non , fi medicus non quarrerccur , morbus n«nfiaiictur: idco rbi abundaYic peccacum , fuperabundavitct gratia : fupcr Cane • 5
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