Identifier: piadesideriaor00hugo (find matches)
Title: Pia desideria; or, Divine addresses, in three books. Illustrated with XLVII. copper-plates
Year: 1690 (1690s)
Authors: Hugo, Herman, 1588-1629 Arwaker, Edmund Sturt, John, 1658-1730
Subjects: Christian life
Publisher: London, Printed by J.L. for Henry Bonwicke, at the Red-Lion in St. Paul's Church-Yard
Contributing Library: Duke University Libraries
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r breath j - At every noife they in new fears engage, And ruihe from each accident prefage. Nay, een of Silence, and its felf afraid The troubled minds eternally difmayd ; Such punifhments attend afflicting guilt, Which never pain like its own torments felt. Thus trembling Cain dreads from each hand he fees The fate his injurd Brother had from his. Wis crimfon Soul, with Abds Mnrther ftatnd, Still with the bloody Scene is entertain d. Sfo more fevere correction waits oh fin, rhanits unbribd upbraider ftillwithin. H Then (SO Then with thy Darts, Lord, frighten me from ill,My Fury wants this kind reftri&ion dill.Fear timely comes before a faults begun,He fears too late, that fears not till tis done. Bernard. Bernard. Scrm. 26* The holy Pfalmift defires wifely to btfmitteny and healthfully to be woun-ded, when he frays to be transfix dwith the fear of God; for that fearis an excellent Dart, that woundsand deftroys the lujis of the Flefh^that the Spirit may be fafe. It 2 V. Otum (leo)
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(^inrlchcrtt-~iranih/. TSal: iij-ffi Ooi) Q turn away mine eyes, left they behold va*nity, Pfal. cxix. 37. r\ my high Capitol two Gentries ftillKeep conftant watch, to guard the Citadel:If fix dot tvandring Stars, I do not know,Tho either epithet becomes them too 3Each from its Duty is in ftraggling loft,Yet each maintains immovably its Poft 3Both fwift of motion, yet bothjfwrW remainsWhat Samp fin this dark Riddle can explain ? Evn Tou, my Eyes, are thefe myfterious Stars^JVW inmy head, yet daily wanderers:Who placd in that exalted Towr of mine,Like Torches in fome lofty Pharos fhine;Or like two Watch-men on fome riling place*View every near, and every diftant pals.Yet you to ms lefi cpnftant prove by far,Than, thofaiind Guides to their Obfervcrs arc % H J The!? (86) Their favours only with themfelves expire,Unlefs the hand that gave, recalls their fire.You, like mad Steeds, too headftrong for the Rein,Will let no powr your wandring courfe reftrain:Tou, by whofe guidance we fhoud dan

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