. Pia desideria: or, Divine addresses, : in three books. Illustrated with XLVII. copper-plates. . uitlefs labor in a circle moves,fhus Slaves, condemnd to ply a toilfom Mill,Mpeac the fame returning motion ftill; Jho (iox) Tbo ftill thereftlefs Engineshurryd round,They by its hafte gain not one foot of ground. What fhall 1 do, a ftranger to the race,Whole lazy feet fcarce move an Afles pace iHeavn lies remote from this mean Globe below,None but the fwift and ftrong can thither go;What then fhall this my flow-wheeld Chariot do I Thou, Lord, movft nimbly ore the rugged Gyant-feetare balk
. Pia desideria: or, Divine addresses, : in three books. Illustrated with XLVII. copper-plates. . uitlefs labor in a circle moves,fhus Slaves, condemnd to ply a toilfom Mill,Mpeac the fame returning motion ftill; Jho (iox) Tbo ftill thereftlefs Engineshurryd round,They by its hafte gain not one foot of ground. What fhall 1 do, a ftranger to the race,Whole lazy feet fcarce move an Afles pace iHeavn lies remote from this mean Globe below,None but the fwift and ftrong can thither go;What then fhall this my flow-wheeld Chariot do I Thou, Lord, movft nimbly ore the rugged Gyant-feetare balkd by no delay:Thou with a ftep doft Eaft and Weft divide,And ore the world, like a Cclojfus, ftride. But with a TV^-motion I proceed,Or rather, like the Crab, am can 1 then hope to that Goal to run,Which tis the busnefs of my life to fhun ?But do thou, Lord, my tremblirg feet Main,Then I the Rm and the Rwwd ftiall gain. Amb. 03) Amb. de fug^t faeculi cap. iZ fyo among fo many troubles of thebody, among fo many allurementsof the world, can keeg a fafe andunerring courfe ? I V. %. (Mj/iflcsLfremiIct/i fa- {La7idIavv afraid, afthy\Iudqi77icnis. TSal(.iiQ .120. / (*?*) IV. yflejb tremhleth for fear of thee, and I amafraid of thy Judgments. Pfal. 119. i*o- k Dread of Heavn was by the Ancients taught,■*• As the firft imprete on Man s infant he who underftood it beft, has (aid,the prime ftep that doesto Wifdom lead,formd by this my early childhood grew,id to fear Heavn was the firft thing I knew :it (till fuch dark Oblivion dulld my mind,:ould not the repeated Alfha (tripes can punifh my negledtful crime,ho, unimfrovJ, have trifled out my Boysby (tripes with Learning are infpird,/ little pains, with indujlry acquired:hen twice or thrice they read their Letters ore,oeyre as familiar as if known before: . And (io<$) And tho in colour all alike appear,Each is diftinguiflid by I not hope Age will compleat in me
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