. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . ie is, andlr>rTj whom (he derives her Power to be. What Philofophy thought otthele natural Imffellions, fo neceffary to our Perfection and Happinel?,I have hinted st in Ennb II. Kore (/•), and therefore hope I may beallowd th s ExprefTion, to defcribe that Negleft of God and DivineIdea?, fur the S-kc of Human Learning and lenlual Complacencies,vihich, as it were, oblirerares the Traces of natural Pic:y, and putsMankind pon the Contempt ol Emblfm (64). Emblem XXII. rhe Temple of TRUTFI. CALM breathd the
. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . ie is, andlr>rTj whom (he derives her Power to be. What Philofophy thought otthele natural Imffellions, fo neceffary to our Perfection and Happinel?,I have hinted st in Ennb II. Kore (/•), and therefore hope I may beallowd th s ExprefTion, to defcribe that Negleft of God and DivineIdea?, fur the S-kc of Human Learning and lenlual Complacencies,vihich, as it were, oblirerares the Traces of natural Pic:y, and putsMankind pon the Contempt ol Emblfm (64). Emblem XXII. rhe Temple of TRUTFI. CALM breathd the Evning Air, in breezyGales,Laden with Odors from the flowry Vales,Colle(5led Sweets in balmy Dewdrops hung,The Groves all ecchod with the tuneful SongsOf {a) Pbilomelts fad Woes; when, full of Thought,The Charms of Solitude Ajnyfitor his enquiring Soul had wiflid to knowFrom whence Eternal Truth began to flow jWhat facred Source diffusd the glorious Ray;How firfl thenlightning Beams began to play; If (6s ) :If in the (If) Seeds of Nature once containd. The lovely Being in the Mafs remaind ; Whence Vice aiid Virtue, Truth and Falihood rofc, Slbbliilid by the Firft Almighty Caufc ; Or if the hallowd Entity began With native Virtue in the Soul of Man; If, ftreaind from Heavn, the Breath iEtherial flowd, And gave us innate Notice of a GOD. Thus, mufing with himfelf, yhnintor jftraydj^To find the Covert of a pleafing Shade,There on the IVIofTy Bank he layd him downtBeneath a fpreading Oak, with Ivy , unbent, refign
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