. Religious emblems : being a series of engravings on wood, executed by the first artists of that line, from designs drawn on the blocks themselves . ; Islcoptlicslcc]. oidcnth. AWAITING THE DAWN, OR DAY-SPRING. This dark globe of earth, surrounded with foggy vapours, interceptsfrom my longing eyes the divine light of the sun of righteousness. I sit among the tombs, involved in dismal shades, with no otherlight than the faint glimmering of the taper of sense fixed in the eyelesssocket of a skull!—When will these glooms disperse? Hasten on thycourse, O cheering harbinger of day! give me the ble
. Religious emblems : being a series of engravings on wood, executed by the first artists of that line, from designs drawn on the blocks themselves . ; Islcoptlicslcc]. oidcnth. AWAITING THE DAWN, OR DAY-SPRING. This dark globe of earth, surrounded with foggy vapours, interceptsfrom my longing eyes the divine light of the sun of righteousness. I sit among the tombs, involved in dismal shades, with no otherlight than the faint glimmering of the taper of sense fixed in the eyelesssocket of a skull!—When will these glooms disperse? Hasten on thycourse, O cheering harbinger of day! give me the blessed hope andassurance that the heavenly light will at length appear and chase awaythe darkness that now sits heavy on my soul. WOUNDED IN THE MENTAL EYE. »i< ja? -i::^ tit ^^: niD oil nnnni^i. r Tlicle is a vvny hIihIi sccmetli light unto .1 man; but tlic cml I hereof :11c the « of death. Proverbs WOUNDED IN THE MENTAL EYE. When the sinner, gazing on the objects which ensnare his soul, iswounded in the mental eye (his conscience) by the shafts of divinelove, and struggles rebclliously against the pain, that would, if endured,throw off all evil propensities and corruptions; Satan, the arch-empiricof this world, is ever ready to administer his treacherous aid.—Ah,Sinner! beware of trusting to his art! the balm he pours into thewound is an enchanted poison; it may indeed assuage the anguish, andcharm the mind to repose: but with the sense of pain all feeling isdestroyed, and each drop from his accursed vial by degrees corrodesthe nerves of true vision, and finally extinguishes the sight. Blind,though believing (by ihe deceiving vapours fuming in his head) ihathe sees clearer than ever, he sinks into the arms of oblivion; he clingsto her bosom in fatal security ; and dr
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