. Choice emblems, divine and moral, antient and modern, or, Delights for the ingenious, in above fifty select emblems , curiously ingraven upon copper-plates : with fifty pleasant poems and lots, by way of lottery, for illustrating each emblem to promote instruction and good counsel by diverting recreation . m fhews (if well you look thereon)That from your Glafs cf Life which is to run,Theres but one Step to Deaths and that you treadAl OJtce among the Living and the 7)ead. In whatfoever Litfid we live or die^God is the fame; and Heavn is there as nigh,As in that ^lace wherein we moft defireOur
. Choice emblems, divine and moral, antient and modern, or, Delights for the ingenious, in above fifty select emblems , curiously ingraven upon copper-plates : with fifty pleasant poems and lots, by way of lottery, for illustrating each emblem to promote instruction and good counsel by diverting recreation . m fhews (if well you look thereon)That from your Glafs cf Life which is to run,Theres but one Step to Deaths and that you treadAl OJtce among the Living and the 7)ead. In whatfoever Litfid we live or die^God is the fame; and Heavn is there as nigh,As in that ^lace wherein we moft defireOur Souh with our laft Breathing to things well heeding, let us not delayOur Journey when we fummon*d are away,(As thofe inforced Tilgrims ufe to know not whither, nor how far they go.)Kor let us dream that we in ^tme or ^lace^Are far from ending our uncertain Race, But let us fix on Heav*7t a faithful Eye,And ftill be fyijtg thither till we die. Lot 24*. divine and Moral. 97 Lot a TO your long Home you nearer areThan you it may be are aware 5Yea, and more eafy is the wayThan you perhaps conceive it may. Left therefore Death fhou*d grim appear,And put you in a caurelefs Fear,Or out of minding wholly pafs,This Chance to you allotted was. Emblem XXV. ^8 Choice Emhlems^ Emblem Tranfeat. The divine fmd Moral. 99 THE Twenty-fifth EmblemIlluftrated. j4 Sive of Shelter waketh (boiVjBut ev^ry Storm will thrd^ it go. SOme Men, when for their Actions they procureA likely colour, (be ic neer fj vain)proceed as if their (Projefis were as fure,As ^htn fotr/idReafon did their Courfh thefe not much unlike thofe Children are,Who thro a Storm adventring defprately,Had rather on their Heads a Sive to bear,Than Coverings that may ferve to keep them at a diftance that perchance is thoughtA helpful Shelter^ and yet proves to thofe P a. Who lOO Choice EmMems^ Who need the fame, a Toy which profits nought,Becaafe each Drop of Rain quite thro* it goes.
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