. Quarles' Emblems . re is no Cupids bow :LORD, give my soul the milk-white innocence01 doves, and I shall have their pinions too :Had I the pinions of a clipping dove,How I would quit this earth, and soar above,And Heavns blessd kingdom find, and Heavnsblessd King JEHOVE ! Quarks* Emblems. S. AUGl ST. in Psal. cxxxviilWhat wings should I desire, but the two precepts of love,on which the law and the prophets depend! O if 1 could obtain these wings, I could fly from thy face to thy face, from the face of thy justice to the face of thy mercy: let us findthose wings by love, which we have lost by
. Quarles' Emblems . re is no Cupids bow :LORD, give my soul the milk-white innocence01 doves, and I shall have their pinions too :Had I the pinions of a clipping dove,How I would quit this earth, and soar above,And Heavns blessd kingdom find, and Heavnsblessd King JEHOVE ! Quarks* Emblems. S. AUGl ST. in Psal. cxxxviilWhat wings should I desire, but the two precepts of love,on which the law and the prophets depend! O if 1 could obtain these wings, I could fly from thy face to thy face, from the face of thy justice to the face of thy mercy: let us findthose wings by love, which we have lost by lust S. August, in Psal. Ixxvi. Let us cast off whatsoever hindereth, entangleth, or bur-deneth our flight, until we attain that which satisfieth; beyondwhich nothing is ; beneath which all things are ; of which allthings are. EPIG. me, my wishing soul, didst ever tryHow fast the wings of red-crossd faith can fly ?Why beggst thou, then, the pinions of a dove ?Faiths wings are swifter, but the swiftest,
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