. Quarles' emblems: illustrated by Charles Bennett and W. Harry Rogers . and made it worse ?Canst thou repent of mercy? Heavn thought goodLost man should feed in sweat; not work in blood :Why dost thou wound th already wounded breast ?Ah me ! my life is but a pain at best :I am but dying dust : my day s a span ;What pleasure takst thou in the blood of man ?Spare, spare thy scourge, and be not so austere : .Send fewer strokes, or lend more strength to bear. Quarles Emblems. 149 S. Bern. Horn, lxxxi. in man ! who shall deliver me from the reproachof this shameful bondage ? I am a
. Quarles' emblems: illustrated by Charles Bennett and W. Harry Rogers . and made it worse ?Canst thou repent of mercy? Heavn thought goodLost man should feed in sweat; not work in blood :Why dost thou wound th already wounded breast ?Ah me ! my life is but a pain at best :I am but dying dust : my day s a span ;What pleasure takst thou in the blood of man ?Spare, spare thy scourge, and be not so austere : .Send fewer strokes, or lend more strength to bear. Quarles Emblems. 149 S. Bern. Horn, lxxxi. in man ! who shall deliver me from the reproachof this shameful bondage ? I am a miserable man, but afree man ; free, because a man ; miserable, because a servant:in regard of my bondage, miserable; in regard of my will,inexcusable : for my will, that was free, beslaved itself to sin,by assenting to sin; for he that committeth sin, is theservant to sin. EPIG. not thy GOD: thine own defaults did urgeThis twofold punishment : the mill, the sins the author of thy self-tormenting :Thou grindst for sinning; scourgd for not
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