Quarles' emblems, divine and moral- together with hieroglyphics of the life of man (1800) (14561410018)

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Title: Quarles' emblems, divine and moral: together with hieroglyphics of the life of man
Year: 1800 (1800s)
Authors: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644
Subjects: Emblems
Publisher: London : Printed for Alex. Hogg
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign



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r give me faith j and, by the eye of grace, I fnall behold thee, though not face to face. S. AU. 2^8 EMBLEMS. Book V. S. AUGUST, in Pfal. xxxix. IVho created all things, is better than all things: whoheautified all things, is more beautiful than all things :ivho made Jirength, isjlronger than all things: who madegreat things, is greater than all things: whatfoever thoulovefi^ he is that to thee: learn to love the ivorkman in hiswork, the Creator in his creature. Let not that zvhichwas made by him pojjefs thee^ lejl thou tofe him by whomihyfelfwas made, 5. AUGUST. Med. Cap. xxxvii. O thou mojl fweet, mojl gracious, moji amiable, moflfuir, when/hall I fee thee? whenjhall I be fatisfied withthy beauty ? when wilt thou lead me from this dark dun^geoHy that I may confefs thy name ? EPIG. 14. How art thou (haded, in this veil of night.Behind thy curtain flefh ! Thou feeft no light.But what thy pride doth challenge as her own ;Thy flefh is high : foul, tak.e this curtain down. Psalm ^y.IlmlK
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Pfalm.55.6.Then u-cyn/t(ZxTf^lz^ fJte. Re<ilfns t^fPcncf andLoi^. BookV. emblems. 229 XIII. Ps ALM Iv. 6. O that I had the wings of a dove^ for then 1 would flyaway and be at refl, I, AND am I fvvorn a dunghlll-flave for everTo earths bafe drudgry ? Shall I never findA night of reft ? Shall my indentures neverBe cancdPd ? Did injurious nature bindMv foul earths prentice, with no claufe to leave her ?No day of freedom ? Muft I for ever grind ?O that I had the pinions of a dove,That I might quit my bands, and foar abo\e.And pour my juft complaints before the great Jehove I How happy arc the doves, that have the powr. Wheneer they plcafe, to fpread their airy wings IOr cloud-dividing eagles, that can towr Above the fcent of thefe inferior things !Hovy happy ig the lark, that evry hour Leaves earth, and then for joy mounts up and fings !Had my dull foul but wings as well as they.How 1 would fpring fron earth, and clip * away.As wife Aftraea did, and fcorn this ball of clay ! * C.V^i u