. Emblems and hieroglyphics on a great variety of subjects, moral and Emblished with near an hundred emblematical cuts from Quarles Emblems . s behold ;Honours, and all the Pomp of Life,For which the World is ftill at Strife,Your Eye will here unfold. Scarce can they turn their Eyes to Him,Who bled and dyd to refcue them From everlafting Woe ;Their Great Concern meets no Regard ;No Thoughts for Heaven can be fpard, Intent on Things below. The Moral. Behold the Traffick of the worldly Fool,For what he barters his immortal Soul!Mere Vanities! the Bawbles of a Day \vVe fcarce potfefs t
. Emblems and hieroglyphics on a great variety of subjects, moral and Emblished with near an hundred emblematical cuts from Quarles Emblems . s behold ;Honours, and all the Pomp of Life,For which the World is ftill at Strife,Your Eye will here unfold. Scarce can they turn their Eyes to Him,Who bled and dyd to refcue them From everlafting Woe ;Their Great Concern meets no Regard ;No Thoughts for Heaven can be fpard, Intent on Things below. The Moral. Behold the Traffick of the worldly Fool,For what he barters his immortal Soul!Mere Vanities! the Bawbles of a Day \vVe fcarce potfefs them ere they fly , that Idol now fo much adord,What Comfort can they at thy Death afford ?Honours, at which Ambition bends her Flight,Vluft fet at length in everlafting Night,ifet thefe how eagerly the Fool purfues,^s if defignM for his eternal Ufe !For thefe, neglects the glorious Things above, ^Sis Peace of Confcience, and the Fathers Love iDbjedls of infinitely more Efteem,Of greater Value and Concern to him,Than all the Riches in this Globe contained,Tho* all his own, and honeftly were 74 HiEROCLYPHlCKS, Book ID EMBLEM III*. teiamitiM-i; The Soul with Sin thats faint and fick,And Confcience fmarting to the Quick,No Hand can heal, till Christ appears,Who gives her Eafe, and dries her Tears. 0ookIII. MokAt and D111NE. 75EMBLEM m. The Sin-Jick Soul* TH E Soul is fick of Sin,Nor Reft, nor Eafe can find}Horrors and gloomy Fears within,Diftraft the clouded Mind. She feeks Relief in vainFrom what this World can yield ;The Joys it gives increale her Pain;Not thus her Grief is heal*d. If Jesus once appliesHis kind relieving Hand,His Touch alone will make her rife ;Health comes at his Command. The Moral. The Confcience, burdend with the Weight of SiniIs all Confufion, Gloom, and Dread within ;No Comfort can the wretched Sinner know,For all he thinks, and all he feels is fees, or thinks he fees, an angry GodShake oer his Head his dire tremendous with
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