. Christian similitudes: being a series of emblematic engravings, with written explanations, miscellaneous observations, and religious reflections, designed to illustrate divine truth, in accordance with the cardinal principles of Christianity .. . ent writer, is apt to be ranked bymany among the more humble and ob- scure virtues, belonging chiefly to thosewho groan on a sick bed, or who lan-guish in a prison; but in every circum-stance of life no virtue is more impor-tant both to duty and happiness. Itmust enter into the temper, and formthe habit of the soul, if we would prop-erly sustain the
. Christian similitudes: being a series of emblematic engravings, with written explanations, miscellaneous observations, and religious reflections, designed to illustrate divine truth, in accordance with the cardinal principles of Christianity .. . ent writer, is apt to be ranked bymany among the more humble and ob- scure virtues, belonging chiefly to thosewho groan on a sick bed, or who lan-guish in a prison; but in every circum-stance of life no virtue is more impor-tant both to duty and happiness. Itmust enter into the temper, and formthe habit of the soul, if we would prop-erly sustain the Christian character. Temperance, a proper and limited useof all earthly enjoyments, keeping everysense under proper restraints, and neverpermitting the animal part to overcomethe rational. Sobriety may be properlyincluded under the head of this virtue,and is both the ornament and defense ofthe Christian. Sobriety is a securityagainst the bad influence of turbulentpassions. It is necessary for the youngand the old, for the rich and the poor,for the wise and the illiterate—all needto be sober and temperate. CHEISTIAN SIMILITUDES. 97 ACTS,Chap, vii:verse 43. JOB,Chap, v:verse 3. PSALM Ixxiv:verse 20. EEVELATION, ^yc^Chap, ii:verse 13. ^^^^^. GENESIS, Chap, xlix: verse 6. EEVELATION, ^ Chap, xviii: verse 2. ISAIAH, Chap, xiv:verse 23. ^ ISAIAH, Chap, xxviii:verse 17. THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN. Which, say they are Jews and arc not, hut are the Synagogue of Satan. Rev. ii: 9. The floods came and the winds blew and beat upon that house; and it felt. Matt, vii: 27. The Synagogue of Satan here appears, On crumbling sands the tottering structure rears Its trembling columns, which their roof uplift, While raging billows round it madly drift. No tapering spires that seem to cleave the skies, Pointing to Heaven, from out its roof arise ; Only an earthly globe full soon to folly writes her characters oer Unbelief the superstructure stands,A tottering fabric reared on trembl
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