. Emblems, divine and moral . cious pardon: let thy gentle ears Hear that in words, what mothers judge in tears :See not my frailties, Lord, but through my fear,And look on eVry trespass through a tear :Then calm thine anger, and appear more mild ;Remember thourt a Father, I a child. * Coakes> soothes. 150 EMBLEMS. BOOK III. S. Bern. Ser. xxi. in man! who shall deliver me from thereproach of this shameful bondage ? I am a mise-rable man, but a free man: free, because like toGod ; miserable, because against God. O, Keeperof mankind, why hast thou set me as a markagainst thee ?
. Emblems, divine and moral . cious pardon: let thy gentle ears Hear that in words, what mothers judge in tears :See not my frailties, Lord, but through my fear,And look on eVry trespass through a tear :Then calm thine anger, and appear more mild ;Remember thourt a Father, I a child. * Coakes> soothes. 150 EMBLEMS. BOOK III. S. Bern. Ser. xxi. in man! who shall deliver me from thereproach of this shameful bondage ? I am a mise-rable man, but a free man: free, because like toGod ; miserable, because against God. O, Keeperof mankind, why hast thou set me as a markagainst thee ? Thou hast set me, because thou hastnot hindered me : It is just that thy enemy shouldbe my enemy, and that he who repugneth theeshould repugn* me: I, who am against thee, amagainst myself. Epig. 6. But formd, and fight? but born, and then rebel ?How small a blast will make a bubble swell!But dare the floor affront the hand that laid it PSo apt is dust to fly ins face that made it. * Repugn, be against, or contrary to. BOOK. MBLEM Job .1^. 24 ..Restore 7urZvrcf; ietnu ag run find GracAt>il aide, rwmore. t/w (rloric&aftmrJR&ee. BOOK III.—EMBLEM VII. Job XIII. 24. Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me forthine enemy P Why dost thou shade thy lovely face ? O whyDoes that eclipsing hand so long denyThe sunshine of thy soul-enlivning eye? Without that Light, what light remains in me ?Thou art my Life, my Way, my Light; in theeI live, I move, and by thy beams I see. Thou art my Life; if thou but turn away, My lifes a thousand deaths: thou art my Way; Without thee, Lord. I travel not, but stray. My Light thou art; without thy glorious sight,Mine eyes are darkenM with perpetual night:My God, thou art my Way, my Life, my Light, 152 EMBLEMS. BOOK III. Thou art my Way ; I wander, if thou fly:Thou art ray Light; if hid, how blind am I!Thou art my Life; if thou withdraw, I die. Mine eyes are blind and dark, I cannot see;To whom, or whither, should my darkness flee,But to the L
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