. Divine emblems; or Temporal things spiritualized, &c. . IS^SiHIS flint, time out of mind has there abode,IrJ |5S Where chryftal streams make their eon-Yet it abides a flint as much as twere,Before it touchd the water or came there. Its hardnefs is not in the leaft abated,Tis not at all by water water hath a softning virtue in t,It cant diflblve the stone, for tis a flint. FOR YOUTH. I 7 Yea, though in the water it doth still remain, Its riery nature still it does retain. If you oppofe it with its oppofite, Then in your very face its fire twill spit. COMPARISON. This flint a


. Divine emblems; or Temporal things spiritualized, &c. . IS^SiHIS flint, time out of mind has there abode,IrJ |5S Where chryftal streams make their eon-Yet it abides a flint as much as twere,Before it touchd the water or came there. Its hardnefs is not in the leaft abated,Tis not at all by water water hath a softning virtue in t,It cant diflblve the stone, for tis a flint. FOR YOUTH. I 7 Yea, though in the water it doth still remain, Its riery nature still it does retain. If you oppofe it with its oppofite, Then in your very face its fire twill spit. COMPARISON. This flint an emblem is of thole that lie,Under the word like stones, until they cryftal streams have not their natures changed,They are not from their lufts by grace DIVINE EMBLEMS IX. UPON THE FISH IN THE WATER.


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