. Quarles' emblems, divine and moral: together with hieroglyphics of the life of man . II. G ET3. i. 3. And God fiild. Let there be light j and ihire wastight. I. THIS flame-expe£ting taper hath at lengthReceived fire, and now begins to burn :It hath no vigour yet, it hath no ftrength ;Apt to be pufPd and quenchd at evry turn :It was a gracious hand that thus endowd [fhroudThis fnufF with flame : but mark, this hand dothItfelf from mortal-eyes, and folds it in a cloud, man begins to live. An unknown flame Quickens his finifliM organs, now pofleftWith motion ; and whiqh motion doth procl
. Quarles' emblems, divine and moral: together with hieroglyphics of the life of man . II. G ET3. i. 3. And God fiild. Let there be light j and ihire wastight. I. THIS flame-expe£ting taper hath at lengthReceived fire, and now begins to burn :It hath no vigour yet, it hath no ftrength ;Apt to be pufPd and quenchd at evry turn :It was a gracious hand that thus endowd [fhroudThis fnufF with flame : but mark, this hand dothItfelf from mortal-eyes, and folds it in a cloud, man begins to live. An unknown flame Quickens his finifliM organs, now pofleftWith motion ; and whiqh motion doth proclaimAn a(Slive foul, though in a feeble bread : Bnt how, and when infusd, ask not my pen jHere flies a cloud before the eyes of men :I cannot tell thee how, nor canft thou tell me wheck. 3 Was it a parcel of celeftial fire, Infusd by heavn into this flefhly mould IOr was it (think you) made a foul intire IThen, was it new created ? or of old ^Or ist a propagated fpark, raked outFrom natures embers ? While we go aboutBy reafon to refolve, the more we raife a dotibt, 2 If JKeroff. Nefcius xtrtde .At lencfth tftiru .ceMtit <!rf/<v4 cAe liiin^I^afrie,Jiut kncnst not n-Aence the JiJmnnahcn cxmtr HIEROGLYPHIC II. 249 4-If it be part of that celeftial flame. It muft be evn as pure, as free from that eternal fountain whence it came : If pure and fpotlefs, then whence came the blot* ?Itfelf being pure, could not itfelf defile ;Nor hath unadlive matter pow*r to foilHer pure and a(5tive form, as jars corrupt their 5-Or if it were created, tell me when : If in the firfl fix days, where kept till now ?Or if thy foul were new-created, thenHeav*n did not ail, at firft, he had to do ;Six days expired, ail creation ceas*d;All Icinds, cvn from the greateft to the finiflid and complete before the day of reft, why fliould man, the lord of creatures, wantThat privilege which plants and beafts obtain ?Beafts bring forth beafts, the plant a perfedt e
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