. Pia desideria; or, Divine addresses, in three books. Illustrated with XLVII. copper-plates . Months, Days, and Hours, ftiH keep theirTill all in vafl Eternity are drown d. (round, Then, Lord, allow mygrief Tome little Ipace,To mourn the fiortnefs of my hafty race iI wifh not time for laughter $ if I did,My circumfianoes and the />/*** I defire, is time for grief and ta»\r,Let fte beall th addition to my years:Which, thd but fhort,yet have been full of finyMore than my time was to repent it if thou grants me fame few minutes more,rhey 11 make amends for my fhort days befo
. Pia desideria; or, Divine addresses, in three books. Illustrated with XLVII. copper-plates . Months, Days, and Hours, ftiH keep theirTill all in vafl Eternity are drown d. (round, Then, Lord, allow mygrief Tome little Ipace,To mourn the fiortnefs of my hafty race iI wifh not time for laughter $ if I did,My circumfianoes and the />/*** I defire, is time for grief and ta»\r,Let fte beall th addition to my years:Which, thd but fhort,yet have been full of finyMore than my time was to repent it if thou grants me fame few minutes more,rhey 11 make amends for my fhort days before.,^omethen, My cruel Hands, and without reft> pity, beat my hard, my fencelefs Breaft!>op then, my eyes, you cannot flow too fad,Miile you delay, what precious time is paft >ris done[ my tears have a prevailing force,:tod HeavWppeasd, now flop their ejiger courfe. Hieron. ad Paulam, Epift. 12. Vhen man fr(i finnHyhe changd Eternity for Mor-tality, Nine hmdredyears, er thereabouts; But finwcreafing by degrees, Mans life was contracted to avery fhort /pace. f (<5<J). («7) XIV. Oh I that thy were wife, that they under-Stood this, that thy would corfdtr theirlatter end, Deut. xxxij. 29* OHame on befotted man, whofe baffled mind^ Is to all dangers, but the frefent, blind!Whofe thoughts are all impioydon mifchiefs near,But ills remote, never fore-fee, ox Soldier is prepared before thf alarm,The Signal givn twoud be too late to Pybts fore-fight waits each diftant bkft,-And lofes no advantage in his indubious Hind manures and foWs the Field,Which he expe&s a plenteous Crop fhould lab ring Ant in Summer ftores at home \Provifion e re old Age and Winter ,oh! what means Mans ftupid negligence,That of the future has no care orfence?Does he expeft Eternity below,A life that fhall no alteration know >Hes much abusd \ inevitable Death,Tho it delays, will one day ftop his breath: *r\ Vaia (68) Vain are the hopes the firm
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