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Title: The baptistery, or, The way of eternal life
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Williams, Isaac, 1802-1865 Bolswert, Boëce van, ca. 1580-1633
Subjects: Emblems
Publisher: Oxford : J.H. Parker
Contributing Library: Duke University Libraries
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dThe disembodied soul attend,Love with her bright beams shall have lit,Faith, who at Edens door doth sit,Shall know them and admit them there,Bearing thy soul through fields of air,—To rest in peaceful Paradise,Until the Judge unbars the skies. If such their end who eer they dieDo put on immortality,Then, tell me, is there spot below,If thou to Wisdoms school wouldst go,Like that calm grave so deeply stillUpon the shelf of that green hill,Where lingers long th Autumnal eve,As loath that tranquil scene to leave ? Oft when the day Ins race hath run,Beyond the slow-retiring sun,The clouds our eyes love to beguileWith shadows of some Blessed Isle;But lest thereon too long we gazeIt disappears with parting rays;That we from fancies yearning thereMay turn, and for the night prepare,And for the great eternal morn,Winch on the wheels of night is borne :When like the sun we see below,The good through realms of space shall go,And bear about them endless daysWhile night before them flies away.
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IMAGE THE TWENTIETH. etgcr ft tic gooo, or tuj»etj»cr it tic coil. O the terrible sight of Judgment! Behold, O man, and considerwhat then thou wilt wish to have done: do that now, and loveVirtue (A), which will then alone be thine advocate, when Godwill bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make mani-fest the counsels of the heart (B). The good things thou hast donethy good Angel shall then recount (C) ; but the devil also, beforeGod and the whole world shall accuse thee of thy sins (D). Oh,how will the wicked man then wish to be united with the good (E),O the sad separation (F)! O the mournful spectacle! Here theWorld, which mortals make so much account of, is burned up (G).There Kings and Princes are trembling (H). Here will be pastthe irrevocable sentence either of eternal punishment (I), or ofeternal glory (K). If thou wilt ever keep in mind these the lastthings, surely thou wilt n

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