Divine Emblems : Or, Temporal Things Spiritualised, &c
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Keep up aloft then, let thy circuits be Above, where birds from fowlers' nets are free. FOR YOUTH. COMPARISON. This fowler is an emblem of the devil, His nets and whittle, figures of all evil. His glafs an emblem is of sinful plealure, Decoying such, who reckon sin a treafure. The simple lark \s a shadow of a saint, Under allurings, ready now to faint. What you have read, a needful warning is, Desigrfd to shew the soul its share of blifs. And how it may this fowler's net efcape, And not commit ...upon itfelf this rape. DIVINE EMBLEMS III. UPON THE VINE-TREE. HAT is the vine more than another tree r Nay moll, than it, more tall, more comely be : What workman thence will take a beam or pin. To make out which may be delighted in ? Its excellency in its fruit doth lie : A fruitleis vine, it is not worth a fly. COMPARISON. What are profeffors more than other men ? Nothing at all. Nay, there's not one in ten, FOR YOUTH. Either for wealth, or wit, that may compare In many things, with some that carnal are.
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