. Religious emblems : being a series of emblematic engravings, with written explanations, miscellaneous observations and religious reflections, designed to illustrate divine truth, in accordance with the cardinal principles of Christianity ; Religious allegories : being a series of emblematic engravings, with written explanations, miscellaneous observations, and religious reflections, designed to illustrate divine truth, in accordance with the cardinal principles of Christianity . and meets with an untimely end. It is so with the laws of sin ; the sinner increases his mo-mentum as he advances
. Religious emblems : being a series of emblematic engravings, with written explanations, miscellaneous observations and religious reflections, designed to illustrate divine truth, in accordance with the cardinal principles of Christianity ; Religious allegories : being a series of emblematic engravings, with written explanations, miscellaneous observations, and religious reflections, designed to illustrate divine truth, in accordance with the cardinal principles of Christianity . and meets with an untimely end. It is so with the laws of sin ; the sinner increases his mo-mentum as he advances ; from hearkening to the counsel ofthe * ungodly, he proceeds to the way of open sinners,—alittle further and he sits complacently in the seat of the scorn-ful. Now his doom is sealed ! Thus it was with Babylons proud king ; not content withhaving been an idolater all his life, against his better knowl-edge—for the judgment that befel his forefather, Nebuchadnez-zar, must have instructed him—he would ridicule the true re-ligion, he would insult the majesty of Heaven. He sends forthe sacred vessels of the Sanctuary, that he and his compan-ions may magnify themselves over the captive tribes of behold ! in the midst of his blasphemous revelry, theHand—the terrible hand, appears, and the presumptuous mon-arch, after having seen his doom recorded on the wall of hiaown palace, is suddenly cut down, and his kingdom given toanother. (34 ■ ALLEGORIES,. My heart is fixed.—Ps. cviii. 1. / press toward the mark, for tJie priitt Phil, iii, 14. DECISION AND PERSEVERANCE. See where the Alps rear up their giant brow !King of the mounts, with coronet of snow;Scorning all time, and change, his stalwart form,Endures the peltings of eternal storm ;In awful pride, enthroned above the skies,Peaks upon peaks in matchless grandeur rise: RELIGIOUS ALLEGORIES. ^ Mid frowning glaciers on whose icy crest,The savage vulture builds its craggy fathomless abyss extend
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