. Divine emblems; or Temporal things spiritualized, &c. . Your watch, though it be good, through want of skill May fail to do according to your will. Suppole the balance-wheels and spring be good, And all things elie, unlets you underftood To manage it, as watches ouorht to be, Your watch will still be at uncertainty. Come, tell me, do you keep it from the duft, And wind it daily, that it may not ruft ? Take heed, too, that you do not strain the spring ; You muft be circumspect in everything, Or elfe your watch will not exactly go, Twill stand, or run too fall, or move too slow. COMPARISON. Th
. Divine emblems; or Temporal things spiritualized, &c. . Your watch, though it be good, through want of skill May fail to do according to your will. Suppole the balance-wheels and spring be good, And all things elie, unlets you underftood To manage it, as watches ouorht to be, Your watch will still be at uncertainty. Come, tell me, do you keep it from the duft, And wind it daily, that it may not ruft ? Take heed, too, that you do not strain the spring ; You muft be circumspect in everything, Or elfe your watch will not exactly go, Twill stand, or run too fall, or move too slow. COMPARISON. This boy refembles one thats turnd from sin;His watch the curious work of grace Watchmaker is Jefus Chrift our Lord,His counfel the directions of His Word ;Then, Convert, if thy heart be out of frame,Of this Watchmaker learn to mend the not lay ope thy heart to worldly dull,Nor let thy graces overgrow with ruft;But oft renewd in th spirit of thy mind,Or elie uncertain thou thy watch wilt find. FOR YOUTH. 83 XXXIX. UPON A IP£ft| N this, see thou thy beauty, halt thou any ; 1 Bpfi ^r tny defects, should they be few or many. SftSHi Thou mayft, too, here thy spots and frecklessee,Haft thou but eyes, and what their numbers art thou blind ? There is no looking-glafsCan shew thee thy defects, thy spots, or face. COMPARISON. Unto this glafs we may compare the Word,For that to man affiftance doth afford. 84 DIVINE EMBLEMS Has he a mind to know himlelf and state,To see what will be his eternal fate. But without eyes, alas ! how can he see ?Many that seem to look here, blind men is the reafon they so often readTheir judgment there, and do it nothing dread.
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