. Emblems, divine and moral, together with hieroglyphicks of the life of man . ly ftandOblidgd for ourfirft parents debt,Befides our intereft 5Alas! we have no harmlefs counter-bond :And we are evry hour befetWith threatnings of till we pay the debt, we can expedl no reft. I 4 7 What may this forrow-fhaken life prefentTo the falfe relifti of our tafteThats worth the name of fweet ?Her minutes pleafures choakd with difcontent,Her glory fti^d with evry blaft ^ *• How many dangers meetPoor miin betwixt the biggins and the winding ftieet ? S. AUGUST Hieroglyph. III. j^t^. S. A U G u s r
. Emblems, divine and moral, together with hieroglyphicks of the life of man . ly ftandOblidgd for ourfirft parents debt,Befides our intereft 5Alas! we have no harmlefs counter-bond :And we are evry hour befetWith threatnings of till we pay the debt, we can expedl no reft. I 4 7 What may this forrow-fhaken life prefentTo the falfe relifti of our tafteThats worth the name of fweet ?Her minutes pleafures choakd with difcontent,Her glory fti^d with evry blaft ^ *• How many dangers meetPoor miin betwixt the biggins and the winding ftieet ? S. AUGUST Hieroglyph. III. j^t^. S. A U G u s r. Inthe^^vorld, 720t to he grieved, not to he affiiSled^not to he in danger, is impojjible. Ibidem. behold, the ivorU is full of trouble, yet heloved •ivhat if It were a pleapigivorld^ ho-w -jcouWfl tboudelight inher calms, that canftfo w$ll endure herflormsX EPIG. VArt tliou confum*d with foul-affliifting crciTes ^Ditturbd with grief? annoyd with worldly loiTcs ?Hold up thy head • the taper lifted high,Will brook the wind, when lower tapers die. P 328 Wieroglypk. CmmiJo Lab a fat. ^^^- Hieroglyph. IV, 329 MATTHEW T^he whole need not the ALvvays prunning, always cropping ?Is her brightnefs flill obfcurd ?Ever drefling, ever topping ?Always curing, never curd ? Tco much fhuffing makes a wafte4When the fpirits fpend too will Ihrink at evry blali. 2You that always are beflowingCoftly pains in life repairing,Are but always overthrowingNatures work by over-caring :Nature meeting with her £0^In a work fhe hath to do,Takes a pride to over-throw. 5Nature knows her own perfeftion, And her pride difdains a tutor, Cannot (loop to arts correction. And fhe fcorns a co-adjutor. Saucy art fhould not appear Till fhe whifper in her ear: Hagar flees, if Sarah bear, 4Nature worketh for the better. If not hinderd that fhe cannot jArt ftands by as her abetter,Ending nothing fhe began not 5If diitemper chance to foild with the difeafc,Art may help
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