. Quarles' emblems: illustrated by Charles Bennett and W. Harry Rogers . no Cupids bow :LORD, give my soul the milk-white innocenceOf doves, and I shall have their pinions too :Had I the pinions of a clipping dove,How I would quit this earth, and soar above,And Heavns blessd kingdom find, and Heavnsblessd King JEHOVE! Quarks Emblems. 309 S. August, in Psal. wings should I desire, but the two precepts of love,on which the law and the prophets depend ! O if I couldobtain these wings, I could fly from thy face to thy face, fromthe face of thy justice to the face of thy mercy : let u
. Quarles' emblems: illustrated by Charles Bennett and W. Harry Rogers . no Cupids bow :LORD, give my soul the milk-white innocenceOf doves, and I shall have their pinions too :Had I the pinions of a clipping dove,How I would quit this earth, and soar above,And Heavns blessd kingdom find, and Heavnsblessd King JEHOVE! Quarks Emblems. 309 S. August, in Psal. wings should I desire, but the two precepts of love,on which the law and the prophets depend ! O if I couldobtain these wings, I could fly from thy face to thy face, fromthe face of thy justice to the face of thy mercy : let us findthose wings by love, which we have lost by lust. S. August, in Psal. lxxvi.• Let us cast off whatsoever hindereth, entangleth, or bur-deneth our flight, until we attain that which satisfieth; beyondwhich nothing is ; beneath which all things are ; of which allthings are. EPIG. me, my wishing soul, didst ever tryHow fast the wings of red-crossd faith can fly ?Why beggst thou, then, the pinions of a dove ?Faiths wings are swifter, but the swiftest,
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