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Title: Emblems, divine and moral
Year: 1824 (1820s)
Authors: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644 Harvey, Christopher, 1597-1663 Wilkins, W. Walker (William Walker)
Subjects: Emblems
Publisher: London : J. Robins
Contributing Library: Duke University Libraries
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y dross:Earths miry purchase is not worth the buying; Her gain is loss ;Her rest but giddy toil, if not relying Upon her cross.How worldlings droilf for trouble! that fond breast, That is possestOf earth without a cross, has earth without a rest. Cass, in Ps. The cross is the invincible sanctuary of the hum-ble, the dejection of the proud, the victory of Christ,the destruction of the devil, the confirmation of thefaithful, the death of the unbeliever, the life of thejust. Damascen. The cross of Christ is the key of Paradise; theweak mans staff; the converts convoy; the up- * Revying is to stake at play a larger sum of money thananother has laid,t Droit, labour. 26 EMBLEMS. BOOK 1. right mans perfection; the soul and bodys health;the prevention of all evil, and the procurer of allgood. Epig. 6. Worldlings, whose whimpring folly holds the lossesOf honour, pleasure, health, and wealth, such crosses,Look here, and tell me what your arms engross,When the best end of what you hugs a cross ?
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Xatet EoftLs , et Otia ducis ■ The Fee &kf c/*><re in trait/ and canst t/wu keen TkvStation here, and thus j-eeure/v j/eep / BOOK I.—EMBLEM VII. 1 Peter V. 8. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary thedevil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seekingwhom he may devour. Why dost thou suffer lustful sloth to creep,Dull Cyprian lad, into thy wanton brows ?Is this a time to pay thine idle vows At Morpheus shrine ? Is this a time to steepThy brains in wasteful slumbers ? Up, and rouse Thy leaden spirit: Is this a time to sleep ?Adjourn thy sanguine dreams, awake, arise,Call in thy thoughts; and let them all advise, Hadst thou as many heads as thou hast woundedeyes. Look, look, what horrid furies do await Thy flatting slumbers! If thy drowsy headBut chance to nod, thou fallst into a bed Of sulphrous flames, whose torments want a date. E 28 EMBLEMS. BOOK I. Fond boy, be wise, let not thy thoughts be fedWith Phrygian wisdom ; fools are wise too late:Beware betimes, and let

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