. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . ( V ). Emblem LHERMArHENA. WHEN dawning Nature in the by Impulfc of Proplietick Rage,Strove (too unequal to the great Delign)To draw feint Copies of the Powr Divine jConfcious no Form v/ith utmolt Labour wrought(So native Reafon uncorrupted taught)Coud point unbounded Entity to Senfe,Or give the Outlines of Omnipotence ;With hallov/d Wifdom n:e forbore to framePrefjmDtuous Svmbols of die awfull [ci] Name-, A But C(iv) But for each facred (d) Atribute affigiidSome myftick Emblem to inftrud Mankin

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. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . ( V ). Emblem LHERMArHENA. WHEN dawning Nature in the by Impulfc of Proplietick Rage,Strove (too unequal to the great Delign)To draw feint Copies of the Powr Divine jConfcious no Form v/ith utmolt Labour wrought(So native Reafon uncorrupted taught)Coud point unbounded Entity to Senfe,Or give the Outlines of Omnipotence ;With hallov/d Wifdom n:e forbore to framePrefjmDtuous Svmbols of die awfull [ci] Name-, A But C(iv) But for each facred (d) Atribute affigiidSome myftick Emblem to inftrud Mankind:In {c) Hieroglyphick Shapes the God confefsd,And humble Faith, by erring Zeal exprefsd. This /Egypt from her firft Forefathers knew,Whence {d) Greece her whole huge Train of Idols (lie no more in Natures Footftcps changd the harmlefs Symbol to a fprang their Jove^ hence Argive Juno { Bacchus triumphs, crownd with fragrant Vines,Hence Mars breaths Horror, Neptune rules the Waves,^And (e) (hakes the folid World from (f) Li by an C2iwes jLove

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