. Emblems and hieroglyphics on a great variety of subjects, moral and Emblished with near an hundred emblematical cuts from Quarles Emblems . er, pleafe and ibotheThefe Bodies made of Clay ;Deaths Prifoner is evry Man,Eer fince Mortality began,And Adam was his Prey. Thus over Man the Tyrant reigns,And proudly all Controul difdains All Creatures him obey :Yet, Monfter, know the Time will -come,That mall decide thy final Doom, And end thy cruel Sway. The Mora was the prime Original of Death,hich reignd eer fince Man forfeited his Tyranny continues Hill as great,nd vaunts
. Emblems and hieroglyphics on a great variety of subjects, moral and Emblished with near an hundred emblematical cuts from Quarles Emblems . er, pleafe and ibotheThefe Bodies made of Clay ;Deaths Prifoner is evry Man,Eer fince Mortality began,And Adam was his Prey. Thus over Man the Tyrant reigns,And proudly all Controul difdains All Creatures him obey :Yet, Monfter, know the Time will -come,That mall decide thy final Doom, And end thy cruel Sway. The Mora was the prime Original of Death,hich reignd eer fince Man forfeited his Tyranny continues Hill as great,nd vaunts his Power is derived from Fate ;rengthend by Sin> and domineering Lu{i>houfands reduces daily to the craving, carnal Appetites poftefsd,rith Natures choicell Cates we are unblefsd %ith thefe we do our pamperd Bodies feedtet thefe are Deaths moll fructifying Seed,k Death, hoiv terrible foeer he feem,nd armd with Terrors, horrible and grim,et is the pious Chrifuans trulty Friend,nd will Relief from all his Evils fend ;pens the Gate to everlaltmg Blifs,fhere Sin no more^-the happy Soul (hall teaze. t44 HlEROGLYPHICKS, Book 1 EMBLEM The Soul is wing*d, but cannot getOne Inch from Earth, her painful Seat 5She ftrives again, alas ! in vain—££e quickly feels her heavy Chain* iotfk V. Moral and Divine-. 14$ EMBLEM IX. Senfe a clog to the SouL OW HAT a wretched Man-am UHow chained down to Strife!For when to Heaven I would fly, I cannot get from hence :Earths heavy Clog, alas ! I wear,Its Weights tao great for me to bear. My Words and Deeds, that Good intend, Are interrupted ft ill ;My Sighs and Vows, that up I fend, Draggd down to Earth I feel :•My God, I fpread my Wing* in vain,Till thou unlink, my bolted Chain. Thfi Mora l. > what a Load cf Flem the Chriftian bears!eplete with Frailties and diftracling and Dileafes corporally felt,nd Confcience bardend with condemning Guilt,urb the fwifc Wings of his aipiring Zeal,nd hang a Clog on his devotional
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