. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . e after Age cxpird. No dawning Gleam of future Joys Ihe faw ;Till in Prophetic Streins trom Hcavn infpird, Hope dawnd imperfe(5t in the Moral Law;At length Redemption^ like the beamy Day, Broke from Empyrean Worlds, and flione around>Reviving Nature triumphd in its Ray, And Grace and Glory in the Lumen found:Man, chearful Man, no longer then purlud The fleeting Shadows of uncertain Blifs;ThAlmighty Image in his Soul renewd. Bid Reajon bow to Faith^ and falfe Delufions ceafe:No bleeding Vi6lims then high Altars ftai
. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . e after Age cxpird. No dawning Gleam of future Joys Ihe faw ;Till in Prophetic Streins trom Hcavn infpird, Hope dawnd imperfe(5t in the Moral Law;At length Redemption^ like the beamy Day, Broke from Empyrean Worlds, and flione around>Reviving Nature triumphd in its Ray, And Grace and Glory in the Lumen found:Man, chearful Man, no longer then purlud The fleeting Shadows of uncertain Blifs;ThAlmighty Image in his Soul renewd. Bid Reajon bow to Faith^ and falfe Delufions ceafe:No bleeding Vi6lims then high Altars ftaind. No pompous Folly bore Religions Name jKo more the Firft Pure Being was profand With Clouds of Incenfe from the impious burning Heart was then Heavns Sacrifice, The flowing Tears a rich Libation Souls by Faith coud pierce the Skies, And Track* of Azure Worlds in Glory once Elijah^ from the Sacred Coaft Born on a flaming Chariot, wingd his wayTo glowing Orbs and Heavns JEtherial Hofl:^ And lives immortal in a Flood of Day, Emblem ( ^^5 ). E M B L E M XLVr. rhe Force of PIETY. •^TT^ I S well, Philofophy! No more Ill court*^ X Thy faithlels Charms, thEnjoyment is too fl:iortI meet in Nature ; while my adlive SoulPants after brighter Worlds, where GOD is All in All;There Truth is only found: OI Sacred Powr,Stream down into my Heart the balmy ShowrOf thy Almighty Grace; I feci it here,Hcavn hears my Voice, and has indulg d my Prayi ^The Sacred Wifdom of thy Crofs and Thee,O endlcls Source of Immortality 1 I 4 Hence ( 13^ ) Hence Ill purfuc; till for {a) Ideal JoysThy Ilcavnly Vifion all my Soul employs:Welcome, Seraphic Streams of Sacred Love,Earned of Glory and the Blifs Above jHow my Heart pants and opens all for Thee,Nature is Tranfport, Reafon Extafy;All Heavn is in my Breaft: So the Firft ManFelt the ftrong vital Pang, when Life began jHis Nerves all trembled with a Flood of Joy,Unknowing what he felt, with upcaft EyeIo Azure Worlds, he ow
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