. Pia desideria: or, Divine addresses, : in three books. Illustrated with XLVII. copper-plates. . fureare ftrangersTo the Joys above,Who more than Home a wretched Exile Heaves remote, and its far-difiant blifsAppears minute to our miftaken ! why, my Comtrey, art thou placd fo far,That I am ftill a tedious wanderer ? Happier the Exiles of old Heathen Rome,Whom only Tyber did divide from home)While to remoter banifhment defignd,A vaft Abyfs twixt Heawn and me I find;The Hebrew jlaves in Harvefi were let free ;My HsrvejFs come, why not my Liberty ?Thefwift fore-runner of the welco
. Pia desideria: or, Divine addresses, : in three books. Illustrated with XLVII. copper-plates. . fureare ftrangersTo the Joys above,Who more than Home a wretched Exile Heaves remote, and its far-difiant blifsAppears minute to our miftaken ! why, my Comtrey, art thou placd fo far,That I am ftill a tedious wanderer ? Happier the Exiles of old Heathen Rome,Whom only Tyber did divide from home)While to remoter banifhment defignd,A vaft Abyfs twixt Heawn and me I find;The Hebrew jlaves in Harvefi were let free ;My HsrvejFs come, why not my Liberty ?Thefwift fore-runner of the welcom SpringFinds after Winters cold a time to fing:She who did long in dark receffeslie,Now flys abroad and re-falutes the Sky, («7) 3utl ftill live excluded from above,Deryd the Objeft of my Blifs and Love,iafte, hafte, my God, and take me up to Thee;here let me live, where I was made to be. Aug. Serm. 43. there are two tormentors of the Soul, whichdo not torture it together, but by names are Fear and Grief: When itis well with you, you fear ; when ill, yougrieve. VIII. 0 (zi&). 0 TisrctehecL TnarL l:hailamJnrJwJlvalL d^lur^-ngTtejfrcnrL thzhorfyafihiJ deaitLTliaTTL. (a 19) VIII. .wretched man that 1 am! who /halldeliverme from the body of this death1. Rom. 7. 2,4. w Here are the loft delights for which I grieve,But which my fcrrows never fhall retrieve ? jch vaft delights but mention not the lofs, ;hofe fad remembrance is thy greateft crofs: nd fate is kindeft when it robs us fox otake away our fenfe of fuffering too. ■pur faff Parents folly we exclaim, only were, zsfrft, to blame; n Expand Adam we difcharge our rage, nd thus exfofe our naked Parentage. !utl (alas!,) condemn not them alone, or while I mnd their fally forget my ovjfu ith Evelwas confenting to the cheat iposd on Adam, and helpt him to eat, ence I my nakednefs and frame derivd, nd skins of Beads to cover both receivd ; And And from my forfeit Eden juftly drivn, The curfe of Earth,
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