. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . fe pays,Chafte holy \^o\vs, and Hecatombs of Praife;Each Night the Silver Moon beholds his TearsOf weeping Penitence and humble Prayrs jObedience crowns the Whole, his Heart no moreAmbition warms, or the lewd Thiril of Powr;The Wealth of Nature he at Diftance views,Dares wifh no Plenty, nor no Want refufe:All that is Heavns, and as wife Heavn Ads are juft, but awful My{1:eries;Triumphant hence oer all Lifes tempting Joys,He hears, unmovd, the warbling (^) aS^t^-zzs Voice;In vain foft Pleafure charms, in
. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . fe pays,Chafte holy \^o\vs, and Hecatombs of Praife;Each Night the Silver Moon beholds his TearsOf weeping Penitence and humble Prayrs jObedience crowns the Whole, his Heart no moreAmbition warms, or the lewd Thiril of Powr;The Wealth of Nature he at Diftance views,Dares wifh no Plenty, nor no Want refufe:All that is Heavns, and as wife Heavn Ads are juft, but awful My{1:eries;Triumphant hence oer all Lifes tempting Joys,He hears, unmovd, the warbling (^) aS^t^-zzs Voice;In vain foft Pleafure charms, in vain Defire,Love, Beauty, Grandeur, guilty Thoughts infpire ^No Pomp of Nature can his Peace lives a Martyr, and he dies a Saint. NOTES on Emblem XXXIX. (a) Po-wrs jf y^;^/-/; —Free Will, and a Natural Capacity ofbeing Immortal. See Epiph. from Proclus co;t. Origfn. -^Ig. deCiv. Dei, Jull. M. ylpol. ad Sen. {l>) Syrenj Fo/ce—Metaphorically for the deluding Voice ofNature. The Whole built upon the Plan of Clem. Alex, his true Gnofsis^in Strom. Emblem. Emblem XL,Primitive DEVOTION. WHEN true Devotion and a pious ZealTo learn the Depths of Heavns AlmightyWillInfpire the Soul, how readily we hearThe Sacred Lectures of the Learned Chair;The Preachers Voice, like HennofPs, balmy Dews,Melts our flrpng PafTions into Holy Vows;We pray, we lillen, and we learn, with Joy, Heavn firfl taught 3 and evry Senfe employIn hallowd Pleafures; while our glowing BreaftPants flrongly to receive the hallowd Guefl; Thus ( 9 ) Thus met the Saints of Old, nor thought whole DaysToo long to fpend in their Creators Praile :Then Churches were the Copies of thofe ChoirsWhere Heavnly Vifion Heavnly Love infpires;Faiths holy Tranfports triumphd over Senfe,And Reafon bowM to pure Intelligence :Then GOD was All in All j to eviy BreaflTh Immortal Preience was a welcome Guefl:;There in his living Temple of the MindThe radiant (a) Shechi?iah for Incenle ever burnd; Devo
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