. Emblems, divine and moral. New ed., carefully rev. and corr., with recommendatory prefaces by Augustus Toplady, and John Ryland . E^rBLKl^.T: 1i Patet .-Etberi ; clauditur Orbi. f/irn tr Hctivn , f/ic Btttf/ ■ Knrf/i/> J*rnfrf/irfi fr Sraiti , ,tAnf fv ,t// /•<:i/t/t. BOOK II. EMBLEMS. 99 At length corrected by the filial rod Of his offended, but his gracious GoD, And lashd from sins to sighs ; and, by degrees. From sighs to vows, from vows to bended knees ; From bended knees to a true pensive breast; From thence to torments, not by tongues exprest, Returns; and (from his s
. Emblems, divine and moral. New ed., carefully rev. and corr., with recommendatory prefaces by Augustus Toplady, and John Ryland . E^rBLKl^.T: 1i Patet .-Etberi ; clauditur Orbi. f/irn tr Hctivn , f/ic Btttf/ ■ Knrf/i/> J*rnfrf/irfi fr Sraiti , ,tAnf fv ,t// /•<:i/t/t. BOOK II. EMBLEMS. 99 At length corrected by the filial rod Of his offended, but his gracious GoD, And lashd from sins to sighs ; and, by degrees. From sighs to vows, from vows to bended knees ; From bended knees to a true pensive breast; From thence to torments, not by tongues exprest, Returns; and (from his sinful self exild) Finds a glad Father, He a welcome, child : O then it lives; O then it lives involvd In secret raptures ; pants to be dissolvd : The royal offspring of a second birth Sets ope to Heavn, and shuts the door to earth : If love-sick Jove commanded clouds should hap To rain such showrs as quickend Danaes lap ; Or dogs, (far kinder than their purple master) Should lick his sores; he laughs nor weeps the Earth (Heavns rival) dart her idle ray ; To Heavn tis wax, and to the world tis clay : If Earth pre
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