. Pia desideria: or, Divine addresses, : in three books. Illustrated with XLVII. copper-plates. . eir Days, the Days their Months con-tod the rapacious Months their Years Years, Months, Days, and Hours, ftill keep their round,ill all in vaffi Eternity are drown L Then, Lord, allow my grief Come little fpace,lb mourn the flwtnefs of my hafty race :I wifh not time for laughter ; if 1 did,My circumfiances and the flace I defire, is time for grief and that beallthaddition to my years:Which, tho butjhort, have yet been full offin9More than my time was to recent it i
. Pia desideria: or, Divine addresses, : in three books. Illustrated with XLVII. copper-plates. . eir Days, the Days their Months con-tod the rapacious Months their Years Years, Months, Days, and Hours, ftill keep their round,ill all in vaffi Eternity are drown L Then, Lord, allow my grief Come little fpace,lb mourn the flwtnefs of my hafty race :I wifh not time for laughter ; if 1 did,My circumfiances and the flace I defire, is time for grief and that beallthaddition to my years:Which, tho butjhort, have yet been full offin9More than my time was to recent it in. F4 Yet (70) Vet if thou grantft me fame few minutes more,Theyll make amends for my Jhort days before;Drop then, my eyes, you cannot flow too faft;While you delay, what precious time is loft ?9Tis done! my tears have a prevailing force,4nd Heayns appeasd,now flop their eager courie Hieroai (70 Hieron. ad Paulam, Epift. zil 7hen manfirftfinnd^ he change/ Eter-nity for Mortality, Ninety yearsy orthereabouts: But fin increafing bydegrees. Mans life was contractedto a very fhort fpace* XIV. Oh]. Vhlfha^Mcv?ire?C7vi3c, i/iatrfiar under:Sfccd ??iiS; l/mltt/icv nttmld. conJutcr- I 2> -7Z . (73) XIV. h! that they were wife, that they underftooithiSy that they would confider their latter^end. Deut. 32. 29. >Hame on befotted man, whole baffled mind Is to all dangers, but the prefent, blind!7hofe thoughts are allimployd on mifchiefs near,iut ills remote, never fore-fee, or fear,■he Soldier is prepard before thallarm,he Signal givn, twoud be too late to Tylots tore-fight waits each diftant blaft,tad lofes no advantage in his hafte.[hinduftrious Bind manures and fowsthe Field,rVhich he expefts a plenteous Crop fhould yield :The laboring Ant in Summer (tores at homeProvifion againft Age and JVmur come. But, (74) But, oh / what means Mans ftupid negligence^That of the future has no care or fenfe!Does he exped Eternity below,A life that (hall no alteration know ?Hes much abusd
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