. Emblems of mortality : representing, in upwards of fifty cuts, Death seizing all ranks and degrees of people : imitated from a painting in the cemetery of the Dominican church at Basil, in Switzerland : with an apostrophe to each, translated from the Latin and French : intended as well for the infomation of the curious, as the instruction and entertainment of youth : to which is prefixed a copious preface, containing an historical account of the above, and other paintings on this subject, now or lately existing in divers parts of Europe . Th* Almighty Father did expelMan from his bleffed Sca
. Emblems of mortality : representing, in upwards of fifty cuts, Death seizing all ranks and degrees of people : imitated from a painting in the cemetery of the Dominican church at Basil, in Switzerland : with an apostrophe to each, translated from the Latin and French : intended as well for the infomation of the curious, as the instruction and entertainment of youth : to which is prefixed a copious preface, containing an historical account of the above, and other paintings on this subject, now or lately existing in divers parts of Europe . Th* Almighty Father did expelMan from his bleffed Scat; And to fuftain his Life decreedBy his own proper Sweat: Then, firit, into the empty World,Pale Death an Entrance gaind ; And the fame Powr oer mortal Men,Has ever fince 2 The [ 4 ] CURSE. Curfed is the Ground for thy Sake ; in Sorrow jhaltthou eat of it all the Days of thy Life, Sic. Genesis iii. Cursd be the Earth for thy Offence, And barren be the Ground,And full of Toil and Labour great, Thy anxious Life be found; Till Death thy lifelefs Limbs replaceIn Earths cold narrow Womb, Then Duft, which at the firft thou wert,Thou quickly fhalt become, C 5 3 Woey Woe, Woe to the Inhabiters of the Earth,Revelations viii. 13. All in whofe Noftrils was the Breath of Life, of all that was in the dry Land, died. Genesis vii. 22.
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