. Emblems, divine and moral . nd made it worse ?Canst thou repent of mercy ? Heavn thought goodLost man should feed in sweat, not work in blood :Why dost thou wound th already wounded breast ?Ah me ! my life is but a pain at best;I am but dying dust; my days a span ;What pleasure takst thou in the blood of man ?Spare, spare thy scourge, and be not so austere :Send fewer strokes, or lend more strength to bear. S. Bern. Horn, lxxxi. in Cant. Miserable man! who shall deliver me from thereproach of this shameful bondage ? 1 am a mise-rable man, but a free man : free, because a man ;miserable, beca
. Emblems, divine and moral . nd made it worse ?Canst thou repent of mercy ? Heavn thought goodLost man should feed in sweat, not work in blood :Why dost thou wound th already wounded breast ?Ah me ! my life is but a pain at best;I am but dying dust; my days a span ;What pleasure takst thou in the blood of man ?Spare, spare thy scourge, and be not so austere :Send fewer strokes, or lend more strength to bear. S. Bern. Horn, lxxxi. in Cant. Miserable man! who shall deliver me from thereproach of this shameful bondage ? 1 am a mise-rable man, but a free man : free, because a man ;miserable, because a servant: in regard of mybondage, miserable; in regard of my will, inex-cusable : for my will, that was free, beslaved itselfto sin, by assenting to sin; for he that committethsin is the servant to sin. 142 EMBLEMS. BOOK III. Epig. 4. Tax not thy God : thine own defaults did urgeThis two-fold punishment; the mill, the sins the author of thy self-tormenting:Thou grindst for sinning; scourgd for not JoL .10 . C) . Ttemjem2>er,J£trrtL ntade-fram. CuffA or in t/iv Wra/n. consume, me. t/ui/c an >n . BOOK III.—EMBLEM V. Job X. 9. Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made meas the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dustagain ? Thus from the bosom of the new-made earthPoor man was delvd,* and had his unborn birth:The same the stuff; the self-same hand doth trimThe plant that fades, the beast that dies, and him:One was their Sire, one was their common mother;Plants are his sisters, and the beast his brother;The elder too: beasts draw the self-same breathWax old alike, and die the self-same death:Plants grow as he, with fairer robes arrayM;Alike they flourish, and alike they fade:The beast in sense exceeds him ; and, in growth,The three-agM oak doth thrice exceed them both*Why lookst jjmu then so big, thou little spanOf earth P what art thou more in being man ? * DeWd, dug. 144 EMBLEMS. BOOK III. I,* but my great Creator did inspireMy
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