. Quarles' emblems: illustrated by Charles Bennett and W. Harry Rogers . Look upon my affliction and my pain, and forgive all my sins.—Psalm xxv. 18 Both work and strokes ? both lash and labour too ? What more could Edom, or proud Ashur do \ Stripes after stripes ; and blows succeeding blows ! LORD, has thy scourge no mercy, and my woes No end ? my pains no ease ? no intermission ? Is this the state, is this the sad condition Of those that trust thee ? will thy goodness please T allow no other favours \ none but these ? Will not the rhetric of my torments move ? Are these the symptoms, these t
. Quarles' emblems: illustrated by Charles Bennett and W. Harry Rogers . Look upon my affliction and my pain, and forgive all my sins.—Psalm xxv. 18 Both work and strokes ? both lash and labour too ? What more could Edom, or proud Ashur do \ Stripes after stripes ; and blows succeeding blows ! LORD, has thy scourge no mercy, and my woes No end ? my pains no ease ? no intermission ? Is this the state, is this the sad condition Of those that trust thee ? will thy goodness please T allow no other favours \ none but these ? Will not the rhetric of my torments move ? Are these the symptoms, these the signs of love ? Ist not enough, enough that I fulfil The toilsome task of thy laborious will? May not this labour expiate and purge My sin, without th addition of a scourge \ Look on my cloudy brow, how fast it rains Sad showrs of sweat, the fruits of fruitless pains : Behold these ridges, see what purple furrows Thy plough has made; O think upon those sorrows L 2 148 Quarles Emblems. That once were thine; O wilt thou not be woodTo mercy, by the charms of sweat a
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