. The book of similitudes: . i/>/,-ii//iT, Mt<M/*ih:<< of A< forever, Him r-JW/Wrt vuirni Lifes Voyage ////./ /A-bytt scenes:- danfrshtrk around .Fancfs liiBlesfloat heforehim: Pleasure^ Rickes. Fame Stciempt him aside, but if he heeds tlu divineGuide book, he safdy makes his passager manhood seesyAtJdul visions pass away, and guideslus loaded lark through breakers, *- old are totters with wasting yearsladen with Infirmities, with shattered hark passes into iln sea shoreless, fafhomtess, eternal, to sink in decpeH night, or rise to endless, lUssfuL
. The book of similitudes: . i/>/,-ii//iT, Mt<M/*ih:<< of A< forever, Him r-JW/Wrt vuirni Lifes Voyage ////./ /A-bytt scenes:- danfrshtrk around .Fancfs liiBlesfloat heforehim: Pleasure^ Rickes. Fame Stciempt him aside, but if he heeds tlu divineGuide book, he safdy makes his passager manhood seesyAtJdul visions pass away, and guideslus loaded lark through breakers, *- old are totters with wasting yearsladen with Infirmities, with shattered hark passes into iln sea shoreless, fafhomtess, eternal, to sink in decpeH night, or rise to endless, lUssfuL. glorious day. THE BOOK OF SIMILITUDES: ILLUSTRATED BT A SERIES OF EMBLEMATIC ENGRAVINGS; ALSO %\t f rinnpl (£fonfs CONNECTED WITH THE RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF THE WORLD, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME: WITH A P ARTICULAR DESCRIPTION OF MANY REMARKABLE EVENTS. BY JOHN W. BARBER, AUTHOR OF SEVERAL HISTORICAL AND RELIGIOUS WORKS. I have used similitudes.—Hosea NEW HAVEN, CONN.: PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR FOR JUSTUS H. BK-^DILEY. J. H. BENHAM, PRINTER. 1860. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, BY JOHN W. BARBER,In the Clerks office of the District Court of Connecticut. PREFACE. The art of communicating truth to the understanding of allmen by emblems, parables and similitudes, has bee inn useamong all nations from the remotest antiquity, and is sanc-tioned by the highest possible authority. Many portions of divine truth are forcibly and beautifullyillustrated by similitudes. The Prodigal Son, the Good Sa-maritan, the Good Shepherd, and many other parables arestriking demonstrations of this truth. These illustrations arein reality, pictures to the mind, corresponding with pictorialrepresentations to the eye. When both are united in onepublication, on many subjects, a double advantage is gainedover mere precept, in language universally intelligible. The author of this work, many years since, was engagedtaring and finally issui
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