Identifier: piadesideriaor02hugo (find matches)
Title: Pia desideria: or, Divine addresses, in three books
Year: 1702 (1700s)
Authors: Hugo, Herman, 1588-1629 Arwaker, Edmund, d. 1730 Frank Baker Collection of Wesleyana and British Methodism. NcD
Subjects: Christian life Emblems
Publisher: London, Printed for Henry Bonwicke ..
Contributing Library: Duke University Libraries
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rm-twigs caught \For Death around, its fubde Nets does fpread,Fine as the texture of the Spiders Web:And as perdue that watchful Robber lies,His buzzing Prey the better to furprize \But, taught by Motion when the Bootys nigh,Leaps out, and feizes the entangled Fly : Or (45) 3r as a Fowler, with his hidden Snare,:ontrives tentrap the Racers of the Air;While to conceal and farther the Deceit,3e ftrows the Ground with his deflruaive Meat *\nd fattens Birds of the fame kind, to Sing,knd weakly flutter on their captive Wing :So Death the Wretch into his Snare decoys,&nd with pretended Happinefs deftroys •.kbove the Nets we think a leap to take,But head-long drop into th infernal Lake. Amb. lib. 4. in cap. 4. Luc#. The reward of Honours, the height of Tower, the deli-cacy of Diet, and the beauty of m Harlot, are thefnares of the Devil. Idem, de bono mortis. Whilfi thonfeehft Pleafures, thou runnefi into Snares;for the Eye of the Harlot is the Snare of the A-dulterer. X. Enter (4<5)
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Jgnfcr nvtmfe Judgment with :e. +c (47) X. Inter not into Judgment with thy Servant,0 Lord, Pfal. cxliij. 2. rH E Mafters Gains to a fmall Sum amount,That calls his Servant to a drift Account;Ud tho the Servant has not wrongd his Truft,jvheres the Applaufe of being only Juft ffainly the leafier does a Suit begin,fo gain a Viftry he muft Blufli to win:Ind if Pm over guilty made, no doubtmuft: go feek forne other Mafter out.Relieve me, Lord, to be Severe with me^Will wrong thee more than my Offending thee* am fo much too mean for thy Regard,Twill lefTen thee to mind how I have ErPd.What! mull thy Regiftries the f leadings fhow,•woln with the Hiftry of my Overthrow fDr can I hope my Caufe fhoud Thine out-do,Where Thou fitft Judge, that art the Flanufftoo ?What Eloquence can Plead with fuch fuccefs,r/o free the Wretch that does his Debt confefs ? Alas? )W. (48) Alas! what Advocate belt read in Laws,Can weaken Thine, or re~inforce my Caufe fAh ! not too ftridtly my Accounts furvey,Nor fo

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