>t^-?^^«^^v^^.;^^?X. /c-^/3 To the Right Honourable Augustus^ Earl of SUSSEA\ Vifcount Longuev I I/e^ hovdGrey of Ruthe?t^ Hajlings^ Wexford^ and Vale7tce* My Lord ! I Am too well acquainted with the Progrefs Tour Lor dpi p has made in Knowledge and Virtue^ to be- lieve you capable of being pleas'd with Flattery j which, tho' often too charming to the firft Stages of Life, and too frequently the Vice of Authors in Addreffes to the Greatj is, I am perfuaded, an Off 'ring DEDICATION. Off 'ring abhorrent to Tour Lor d^ Jhip's Genius, which is too well endowed by Nature with thofe 'Ennoiai peri Kaloon kai theioon which Ariflotle lays down to Nicomachus as the Fountain and Bafis of all folid Virtue in the Human Soul, either to want or admit the falfe Colours of ground- lefs Eloquence to paint it more beautiful or excellent than it really is. But what lefs could be expecSled than a Spirit unconfin'd in its moft extenlive Ideas of Perfection and Native Love of Virtue, from a Defcendant of thofe excellent Pat- terns of both, the late Lord Vifcount and prefent Vijcountefs Dr^'^^^^i^r LoNGUEViLLE J of whom the Former has left Your Lordpip a moft valuoble Example of every Thing that can make You truly Great DEDICATION. Great and really Good j while the Other ftill lives (and may fhe con- tinue fo to do, 'till fhe Ihall be as venerable for her Years as Ihe is now for her Piety) to be, like Minerva to T.elemachus^ a wife and faithful Monitor, were there any Occafion for it, to Your Lord-*^ jhip of Virtue and Religion. What we are further to hope for from a Young Nobleman of Tour Lordjhip's fine Spirit, improved by all the Advantages of good Exam- ple and moft careful Education, may in part be gathered from the prodigious Virtue of fome of the Ancient Romans^ who wore all the excellent Endowments and Honours of their illuftrious Anceftors, im- proved by a Native Love of Glor)^, in themfelves, and an invincible Pailion for true Greatnefs, which enabbj DEDICATION. enabrd 'em almoft to furpafs the Bounds of Humanlt)^5 and become equally the Envy and Darlings of the Age they liv'd in. May Tour Lordjhip be yet more 5 that is, may Ton always be the Care and Favourite of an Indulgent Provi- dence, leading Tou by Degrees to the higheft Honours Tour Country can heap upon Tou ! May Tou live to protect Britain by Tour Coun- cils, defend Her by Tour Wifdom, and make Her, as She has for many Ages been, the Terror of Nations^ by Tour Succefs in Arms : So that whether Camp or Cabinet prove Tour Sphere to a£t in, the Good GOD may direft Tou to Happinefs ^nd true Glory, by maintaining the Chara6ter inherent to Tour Noble Fami/y^ of being True Lovers of their Country^ Friends to DEDICATION. to Religion^ and Patro?2s of Virtue. Vouchfafe, My Lord^ to accept the following Sheets, as an humble, tho' inconfiderable Tribute of my fincere Gratitude for Favours I have received from Your Honourable Fa-- mily 5 and believe, how fhort foever they may prove of being worthy Tour Prote6]:ion5 they have at leaft this to recommend 'em, that they are the Off 'rings of a moft fincere Refpedt and humble Duty, with which I am, My Lord, Your Lordfl:iIp's Mod obedient, obliged, faithful, humble Eajhn-Maudit. Servant and Chaplain, F. 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Fate <2^(ws Virtue 40 13 Piety 42 14 Prayer 44 15 Phaeton 4.6 1 6 Purblind Nature 5° 17 Stilpo 52 iS Britannia 55 19 Diiappointment 57 20 Penitent 60 2 1 Juft Perfedion 62 2 2 Temple 0/' Truth 64 23 Precipice 69 24 Precaution 71 25 Apoftate Reafon 73 26 Devout Hypocrite 7& 27 Guardian'i \ oice 82 2S Confcicnce 84 29 Providence 86 3o PhsBoraenon %iS No. Page. 3 1 7]^(f Patriarch 95 32 World in Full Life 97 33 Progrefs o/" Gold 99 34 Progrefs 0/" Drama 101 35 Arion 105 36 Vanity 109 37 7'/>^ Call iiz 38 Redemption 114 39 Chriftian Charafler 116 40 Primitive Devotion 1 1 8 41 l\o Reafon abo^e Faith 120 42 Deftrudlion 0/" Jerufalem 123 43 Fa till Piety 125 44 T^he Recall 131 45 Confolation 133 46 Force o/" Piety 135 47 T'-^f Hermit 137 48 Sibyl 139 49 Wedding of Peleus 1 46 50 Time and Providence 151 51 St. Paul 153 52 Chriftian Hero 155 53 Sacred Choir 157 54 Faith 160 55 Repentance 162 56 Patience 164 57 Fortitude 166 58 Juftice ' x68 59 Laft Autumn 1 70 60 Psrfeverance xiz. ( « ) E M B L E M I. HE R M A r H E N A. HEN dawning Nature in the World's iirfl Age, Infpir'd by Impulfe of Prophetick Rage, Strove (too unequal to the great Delign) To draw feint Copies of the Pow'r Divine j Confcious no Form with utmoil Labour wTought (So native Reafon uncorrupted taught) Cou'd point unbounded Entity to '^tui^^ Or give the Outlines of Omnipotence j With hallow'd Wifdom (he forbore to frair.e Prefumptuous Symbols of the awfuU {a) ]\aim ; A 2^" ( o But for each facred (t>) Atribufe afTign'd Some myAick Emblem to inftrud; Mankind: In {c) Hieroglyphick Shapes the God confefs'd. And humble Faith, by erring Zeal exprefs'd. This Mgypt from her firfl: Forefathers knew, V/hence (d) Greece her whole huge Train of Idols drew, When fhe no more in Nature's Footfteps trod. But chang'd the harmlefs Symbol to a God. Hence fprang their Jove, hence Arghe Ju720 (hines. And Bacchus triumphs, crown'd with fragrant Vines, Hence Mars breaths Horror, Neptune rules the Waves, And [c) fliakes the folid World from (f) Li by an Cd.vcs', Love's peaceful Charms in bright Urania Ihine, And w^ife (g) Athena guides the ihidious Mind, Breaths facred Ledures with inftrudive Art, And to Ccelelli-jl Knowledge warms each Heart : {h) HERMES with pleafing Strains dehghts the Ear, Has Wit and Humour for the Young and Fair, Softens ftern Wifdom's Rules with gayer Senfe, Clad in fweet Num.bers or flrong Eloquence : From whence the wife Athenians thoucrht it beffc To treat their Scholars with the mingl'd Feaft, The double Form united Vertue fhews, So HERMATHENA to the World arofe j Learning and Wit their flowing Streams unite. And mingle grave Inftrudion with Delight. NOTES to Emblem I. (a) j^v full Name -^ By Lszme here Is intended the Being or Eflence of God, which can't be reprercnted by any Form i exprels'd by the ^£Wi under the Name Jehovah^ which they therefore terni'd the (3) Name expIdin^J^ tlie Name of the Divine Suhfiamey Sec. for thit Reafon held {o I'acred that they dar'd not pronounce it. (3) For each facred Attribute -^^o Plutarch^ lamhliciis, and others converfant in thofe Myfteries, tell us, That the Figures of Animals among the Sacra in the Egyptian Temples were not intended as Reprefentations of the Deity itfelf, but only Symbols of the Divine Attributes. Suitable whereto alio they appropriated feveral Names to the Firft Adorable Being j as that of Amoua, as he is infinitely wife i Ptha, as giving Life to All ; OJiris, as the moft beneficent, adive, All-feeing Principle; Ifis, as the provident Pro- ducer of all Things j Th/ith, as the Head and Beginning of all Things, &c. Which Names were afterwards impioully alfum'd, together with Divine Honours, by feveral of their Prince^ and chang'd by the Greeks into Zeus^ or Jupiter^ J^^^'^-, Vulcan^ Minerva, Ceres, Hermes, or Mercury, and the reft j the Rationale whereof you may fee in Laertius in Stoicis. (c) Hieroglyfhicb Shafes-^Thitls, facred Sculptures, the Repre- fentations whereof they made ufe of inftead of Writing, to delineate their Ideas of Divine Thing?, and their moft hallow'd Myfteries. Whence that Name became apply'd to that Way of Writing, ii I may fo term it, in contradiftinction to their Civil or Vulgar Characfter. Not but that they had alio another more ancient facred Chatjdter, compar'd by fome to that of the Chiuefe, or our Short-Hand, expreff^ ing at once whole Words, and fometimes Sentences, in which the Infcriptions on the Sepulchral Pillars of Ijis and Ofiris, that ac Alexandria copy'd by Dr. Huntingdon, and thofe over the Cells adjoining to the 2d Pyramid, are thought to have been wrote : As all'o the Works of Hermes found engrav'd on Brick in Caves near Thehes ; but that fome think was laid afide, to make way for Hieroglyphicks j which may be the Reafon for the Difference between Herodotus and Clemtnt upon that Subjeft, the former making but two Sorts of .Egyptian Chzr2&.txs, the latter three, dividing thofe rhey termed facred into Symbolical, that i9, by the Reprefentation of ma:erial Forms, or Hieroglyphicks, and Kuriological, per prima Eleimnta^ which I take to be the ancient Charaifler above defcrib'd. {d) IfkenceGtecce, -^c.-^ Herodotus 2nd o:\.ets\nlorm us, that the greateft Part of the Grecian Gods were taken from the ALgyptuns, by means of the Pehfgi ; except Neptune, who came from Ltiya, where he firft receiv'd DiviiHe Honours. Thefe Gods of -^gypt were Jiftinguifh'd b/ the Title of Dii maj'orum Gevtium : Eight of 'em were the JFgyptian Caluri, or ancient original Dv-'iries, the other fo r added by Hermes, of the Sefojlrian Family j at the Return of whidi Conqueror from his Grand EL^pedi ion, fays Sir Jfaac Neivt',tj, Amphi&ion bearing him Company from Greece, brouglit thofe G<;di back with him, 'n honour of whom Pillars and Starves were etefted, (&Y Eufel. Diodor. Clem. &c. tho' others afcribe the bringing of them to Danaus. (r) Shakes the folid I'/orld — The Aicien's imputed Earthqijakes to Nepfune, who on that Accojnt obrsi'n'd the Name of Seifi(^hoK\ Eiiuafigaon^ and Gaiaochorj, tha: is, Ttrra ^uajjutor, and the like. A 2 (f) Libyan ( 4 ) (f) Libyan Caves— -L'lhya Cyre»aica, the «ncient Neptuchinty t\izt is Terra maritima, v:zs the Country where Neptune reign'd, having obtain'd that Kingdom as his Part in the Divifion between hlmlelf and his two Brori ers, Zefoi^rii and Armais^ or DanauSy thence laid to have the Rule of the Sea : Sir Ifaac makes him the fame with T\pho>7\ or yapetus^ the Br®ther and Admiral of Sefojiris^ the Name Neptune being only an Epithet fignifying Maritime. See Nnte (d) before. (g) ^^hena — A Name of Mtnerva, deriv'd by Plato from her Knowi'edge of Divine Things j and therefore properly applied to her as rheGoddefs of WHdom (,f) Hermes — A Name of Mercury, the fame with the Egyptian 7h\:oth^ the God of Eloquence, and term'd Hermes, fays PhurnutuSy from his Office of interpreting or revealing Divine Myfteries to Ma-k jrd. The firft vi ho obtain'd this Name was the Uncle and Tutor of I/is favs Diodorus, who is thought to have been the Author of thole Books of JEgvptian Wildom which bear his Name. The fecond was his Greaf Nephew, the Son and Secretary of 0/iris, who is tlte j^nuhis of JSgypt, and was Coremporary with Efch-cheleph^ or A'fcutapius, the Son of Apollo, call'd by him jifclepias in his Pialogue of th^r Name, he being the Perfon to whom we owe the Tranflation, and, in fome Things, Interpolation of the Elder //erwfj's Works, if they are his, and not much more ancient : Some afcribe the Foundation of 'em to Cham, fome to Mifri, Jome to Ahraharrty uho we know firft taught the Elements of Learning to the Mgyptian Nation, and others to Mofes, wi h whom in many Things they furprizingly agree, and who by ylrtaban is faid to have been named Mercury, or Hermes, by the JEgyftians. But lamblicus lays, they are the CoUecftions of thcPriefts from thegreateft Antiquity, under the Name of Thyoth, or Caput omnium, render'd by the Greeks Hermes, from their interpreting or revealing Divine Things. Emblem (5 ) Emblem IL The Fountain of W i s d o m. AT WifdQm\ facred Spring, the living Source Whence Learning's plealing Streams derive their Courfe, We drink with Joy in purell Draughts refin'd Knowledge the vital Cordial of the Mind ; Food of immortal S^uls, [a) Ambrofial Dews Of Heav'n's eternal Growth, {b) by Heav'n infus'd. When firft th'Omnipotent Creator fpoke, And Man the Form of living Nature took. No falfe Ideas thence in Clouds arife, But All is pure, and excellent, and wife, A 3 No ( 6 ) No fpecious Errors there abufe our Scnfe, But Heav'n-born Truth, hke Native Innocence, Flows uncorrupted thro' the fpotlefs Soul, And humble Faith obliterates the Fall. See where the lovely Form, jEtherial Maid, Wifdom in Characters of Light array'd, Beflows the hallow'd Draught the Niimen gives. The Soul that drinks the Life of Angels lives. Shall all Things and herfelf divinely know. Be blefs'd Above, and great or good Below. Here the firfl Searchers into Nature's Laws Drank deep to find the One Eternal Caule j 'Twas thefe infpiring Streams {i) iltrw^"^ finl taught. Beyond the narrow Bounds of Human Thought, From Earthy Forms to raifc his purer Mind, And teach myfterious Truths of Forms Divine.; In this "Empyrean Spring 'twas Flato faw The Human Soul by an [e) Eternal Law Immortal in bright Worlds. But v»?hat are thefe^ Or what are their imperfed: Images Of Things Coeleftial, to the glorious Train Of Apoflclick Siiints, and that rich Vein Of Wifdom infinite, which fweetly flow'd From Truth's eternal Spring, the Mouth of GOD ^ There dwells all Learning, there the thirfty Soul May drink her Fill, and tafte the mighty All Of Knowledge unconfin'd and Love fupream. Divinely flov/ing in that facred Stream. There all is pure, thence Nature perfecr grown. Can wing new glorious Worlds^ and make their Joys her ow«, NOTES (7) NOTES on Emblem II, (a) Ambrofial Detvs — This and l^eBar w^ere fabl'd ro be the Fooi of the Gods, of a rroft delicious Fragrancy, as Mofchus defcribina Jupter turn'd into a Full in h\s Euro^a, fays, Bis Scent Amhrof^'AjIe'zr in Circles rouTid, yind Nature's Szveets from fioivry Pa/iures drcnvn'd, Whence the Word is frequently made ufe of to exprel's the nioft: agreeable and delicious Senlations ot the Human Soul. 'i bo' it's true Senfe is immorral, and us'd in that Idea by Phocyllides^ Pytha- goras, and others J probably the Heathe;i rook their Notion from the fruit of the I'ree cf Life, of wh'ch whofoever eat wou'd live for ever. {If) By Heav'n ififus'd-'^'YKxs intends nO more that tho.'e E'woioj. rjne). K-tt-^uv iCj^e^.uv v:h\ Prai/e, O Thou Firjt Being ! (c) Light 'whence j^ngelick Forms, &c. — Some of the yevci/h Rabbi's uftderftand thole Words of Mofes, Let there ke Light, as fpoke of the Angelick Creation ; tho' others include it in the Word Samaim, Heav'n, in the ift v. of the fame Chapter, {d) Entity began to he — So ^rifiotle in his %dde Crelo, fays, The Work of God Iv Iramortality, and Immortality Eternal Life. (e) ^11 live in him— -Tht wife Egyptian in yJfclejias de- fcribes God as the great Exemplar, Prototype and Effential Reafon of all living Forms, which fubfilt in him. and by his Power : And Sz. ^ujiin in pretty near the fame Senfe calls him, the Supreme Origin of all Things ; according to that of St. yoh?:^ In him is Life, and that Life is the Light of Man. Whence the admirable Boetius, addrelFiog himfelf to the Divine Being, makes ufe of this E.xprellion: ■ ■ ■ Tu cunSafuferno Ducis ab exemf lo^ fulchriim, fulchcrrimus ipfe, Mundum mente gerern — — (f) Heav'n's aiiful Throne — So Orphsus in the Place before- iemember'd fpcakinj; of God, fays, He Jits aloft, above the fp angled Sly, EnthroK'd in burning Gold ,■ beneath him lye Earth, Sea^, a>':d Living Forms : With out-Crretch'd Handi The Ocean's fart hef Bounds his Pouu'r commands i The Mountains ihahe before him, nor can bear The Weight of his Omnipotence, &c. — — (g) All in One — All Things in God are one, fays Plato in Soph. probably fr( m thstot Hermes, from whom he often borrows, Unity is the Root of all Things i and in another Place, Ipeaking ol God, he fays, He has bur one Idea, er circntia< Form, which is that of his own infinife e'ernal Being, by no means vifible to Human Eyes, be- caufe Spiritual and Incorporeal j yet is that the great Almighty Ca'ile of all other Forms, vifible and corporeal, in the created Worlds. Whence Dionyf. de div.nom. feems to derive his Notion, of all Things being incl'^ded in God's Immenfity, as all Numbers in an Unit, and all Lilies in a Point, from w hich they mult necelFarily flow, or they cannot be. See Emb. VII, Note {h) and Emb. XX VII, Note {a). [h) Not by compounding F-jrce, &c. — God's Unity does not confid of Parts, but is the molt abflraifl Simplicity which can be conceiv'd in the utmoli Purity of the Idea of Unity j Una Unitas^ fays Hermes, in ( II ) in Po-w. Idem Ipfe, fay the School Divines. There be.ng, as the /e«^/^;«7Vfl/SyUem exprefles it, Nothing in God but God. _ (?) ^ff a»ci Poii.^er the fame — To live and to be, fays St. ^uftin de 7rimf. 3re one and the lame Thing in God, as he is the firll and fupreme Principle of Life, in whom Eflence and Exiftence are all one, and Intelled the fame with both j fo that All is One and One is All. An ExpreOIon borrow'd from the Writings ot Parmenldes and Melijjus^ vi'ho taught the fame Thing, tho' they difter'd in their Idea of what that Unity was j which Difference is folv'd by Ariji'jtle in his PA>'/. faying. They could only intend by it, that which truly and properly i3» and is truly and properly One i that is, fays Cic. in Acad, the Firfi: pjre Being. Hence rhe Schools define God to be ?urui A^us ; which tho' feemingly various, ss it affefts our ApprehenHons in its Difpenia- tionsot Power, Wildom, Gooduefs, &c. is really and fublhntiaUy but One in God. as God is one pure xnd neceflary Being. {k) One Eternal Nou'-^rb vvv, fays Ari/oile, is a Medium, be-^ tween Time paft and Time to come j containing in itfelf the End of one and the Beginning ol the other j fo that nothing can be conceiv'd in Time but a continual NOW j which is therefore the Beginning and End of all Things. By which he feems to hint a Notion of eternal Duration, wherein God is the Firftand alfo the Latt, the «t and ) ^Si, Pozv'r air} Lovf'—'^o Cawpn'iella defines the Effence of A' gels, probably frt/m the InrelleSus, i'otcntia^ &' yoluntas^ of the Ppriia1<'ticl''sy(\^m. {c) Pif/five Njf'.ire'^So the Stcicls taught j their tvi-o Principles beinf; G<.d an.f Msrrsr j the former v/Wns, the latter Pjnens. {d) Immortiil Light in radiant Fires — See N^ore (c) Emb. III. the Term Fira alludes to the Name of the luperior Order Seraphim^ which fhe pjiilm'ft renders Flames of Fire, Pf. civ. (e) Goodne/: fefid'-—T)r,e\-,ce ciW'd Ai.ge's, ah officio nuniii, (f) Empires and blafions — See r)an. x. i^, 2cc. (1^) Gi(ardia>is of the Saints — Pofitlvt-ly afferted by Chrift', Mafth, xviii. a: d Sr. Paul, Heh. i. and Liiivcrhllv allo'A'd, except bv the Saddnce^S, lundir the Mmal Law. The Wifer of the Ueath?n tcrn/d 'em -Criflrdes ^< Co'ida^ores vita- no[irj: ; obfsrving, lays Hcfod, tic gocd snd evil Actions of Men, by the Will of Gcd. They ?.illgn'd ro each Ptrfon rwo, whom they term'd their Genii, a gnod jr,d a bad one, the former reprefenred as an old Man holding a Scroll wtlfren in cnc ili'.nd and pointing tc i: '/^-ich the other. E.MBLK.Vt ( 15 ) Emblem V. Creation a^d Confummation of Worlds* HEN firfl the (a) Breath of Hea'v'n was fent Abroad, Th'enliven'd (I?) CHAOS became full of GOD 5 His Power Omnipotent that Mafs obey'd, And thence thefe Worlds with all their Hofts were made ; Earth, Seas, and Heav'n in nitid Forms arofe, And ev'ry Starry Orb their Maker's Glory fliews; Each living Form Almighty Pow'r exprefs'd, And Nature's grateful Voice Tlee Nature's GOD confefs'd. Tis done. But fee, alas ! when Time's lafl Age fhall come, All ( I6 ) All Nature mourns, devouring Flames confume The burning Worlds ; that. Sinner, was thy Doom : 'Till thou the Handy-work of Heav'n profan'd, That Work the Care of Heav'n'shigh Handremain'd: But Sin once known, Guilt veil'd its Beauties o'er. And that was Horror which was Heav'ti before j The Curfe^ the Deluge^ and the Rage of MaUy Compleat the Ruin which the Fall began : Vindidive Jtifiice, thence the Lightning's hurl'd, Which in lafl Times fhall burn the folid World. NOTES upon Emblem V. [a) Breath of Heav'^j — Alluding fo Pf. xxxiii. 6- not as Ihipeach- ino- the ferfo/ial Exiftence f,f the Holy Spirit, but as the Ho/y Sprit is the Breath of" GoJ^ in the fame Senfe as the Eternal Son is the IVord Or Wifdom of God, yet borh diftinft Hyfo/lafes in the one Divine Nature. Which ConftrufTion is juftify'd by the twofold Signification of the Word Ruah^ render'd Gen. i. 2. Spirit^ and Gen. viii. J. Wind or Breath. So that by Breath 0/ Heav'tt \s intended no more than the Spirit of, or\i-hich proceeds from God: The Term Heav'n being us'd figuratively, as it is itil'd the Sear anj Throne of God. 7h' eternal Palace, •jvhtre the facred Mind y^lrriphtv reffi as Stati'is has it in Theo. fnining continually with the m/thle jmmortal Shechinah or Sephiroth, as the Kahbimch Svjjem exprefles it, of the Infinite EJJence: Fr(im whence therefore a, J Emanations of Divine Glory. Poxer and Pcrlefticn -.re fr.id to ccme, filling our lower Worlds with the fame infinite, tho' to us invifiole, Pre- Jen^e ; the Mani ellarion and immediate Etfed u hereof, here hinted at, was, to \.)^t St. B.'/i I' s Words, the incui>ating and enliv'ning the new created Mafs of Nature to the Production of all thstvaft Variety of vegetative and animal Forms which make up the glorious Cc-mpage of the Univerfc i attributed by the anc'ent ^ezi-s to the Spirit of the MeJJiah, and by the fiA\ Fathers of Philofophy to a fuhtil intelligiut S'irit havir.ir Divi?:e Po'rver, ifhich exijled in the Chaos^or Principia of Nature, the Colpia, or rather Col-fi-jah^ Vf-ice of the Mojth of God in Eufe!^. pr. Ev. fr m SanchoniaflM. {h) Chaos — Prom the //('i'/". C'Jyjh, or, as fome read it, Cahahy to dar'ken or ohfczire, which properly fio;nifies a total Privation both or Form and Light. Mofis c?il]<; it Tohti va Bohu vacuum et inafe^ sr.d DarlneCs on the Face of the DeeD ; therein follow'd bv Hermes in p£m. ( 17 ) Pern, where lie fays, yfn impervious Dark^efs m tie great j^hfs^ and ^Vater, and a fuhtil intelligent Spirit having Divine PoTxwr^ ^jtiere in the Chaos; as alfo in part by rlato in his y^taxia^ render'd by ^d. yunius^ inconditam Congeriem-y regulated and dllpos'd into Form and Order by the Almighty Being, according to thofe Ideas of future Worlds which eternally exifted in the Divine Mind. So Froclui in Parmen. Plat. NaV 'S'^lfoV, &c. The Father^ s Mind intelligent^ for fo 'IV eternal Council^ liihence all Bei)igs fioiv^ ^ Had long determin'd^ ijfu'd/rom the Breajl Of high Onviifotcnce ; from ivhence exfreji In various Forms the fir Jl Ideas fio'w'd^ That both the Means and End might be of God. /nd Plato, if y^riji'jbulus in Clem. Alex, judges rigbf, both faw and copy'd from the Mofaic Scriptures, and is on that Account called by Numenius, Moks ffeab'ng Greek, and by Clement himielf the Hebre'Jv Philofopher. From hence therefore v/e may have a riobt Conception of what Orpheus and Hefiod meant by their FirH exijl- ing Chaos j not the Panfpermia of Democritus, whence Epicurus drew his Notion of infinite Atoms j nor the Eternal Matter of Arijiofle; nor Cofifufwn of Nature with the Divine Subjlance, as the Stoics held : But, Firjl, the dark and, to us, impervious Abyfs of erernal Duration, wherein God alone exifted, preceding all created and material Forms, as reprefented by Orpheus in Clem. Alex. The World's creating Monarch reigns alonCy and then a little further; But my iveak Sight leholds him not .- His Throne A Cloud irapervious hides. No Mortal Eye Can the Allfeeing God., nrho Nature form'd, de/cry. Secondly, the new-created Mafs of material Nati;rc, or Tohu vet Bohu of Mofes ; this Herm. calls 'A'atcr ; which Thales with the moft early Greehs, thought under that Idea to be the firjl Principle of all Thii.gs- And Tlnrdly, the Power of the Divine Almighty Spirit moving upon the Face of that IVater, and producing thereout all Species of living Forms, according to the Will of the Eternal Mind, the mojl ancient, felfi'erfe^, fapient Love of Orpheus^ aicntion'd by Proclus in Tim. \'BLS« ( i8 ) Emblem VI. Creation of MAN. VEIL, veil thy op'ning Eyes, the Numen plays Around th'aftonifh'd Soul, too dazzling Rays For thy weak Senfe to bear ! Behold thy Form Unknown, with moving, living Nature warm. Arife, inanimated Earth ! Extend Thy untry'd Limbs, an Arm, a Foot, a Hand, Unconfcious of thy PowV, and half afraid. To find thy Will by aBl'^oe Pow^r obey'd. Look round and fee thy Fellow-Creatures, h/e Watching each Glance of tliy ImperiLd Eye, Thou ( Tp ) Thou (a) King of Nature^ for whofe Sovereign tJib Omnipotence itielf has been profufe. The Wealth of Infant Worlds on thee beftows. The Terms Obedience^ the Return thy Vows, Spare but to fin, the fatal Tree forbear. Behold the Charm, but, O ! that Charm beware.' Immortal then, eternal Joys are thine, And all thy Tranfports, like thy Soul, Divine. Death's fable Gloom (hall ne'er thy Life invade. Nor Peace, nor InnocefKe, nor Glory fade. NOTE on Emblem VI. {a) King of Bature — That the Inferior Parts of Nature were created for the Service and Ufe of Man, and he for the Contempla- tion and Enjoyment of God, is what both Reafjn owns, and Revelation confirms i on which Account TuUy de Nat. D. calls the World the common Habitation of God and Man^ •who iras created to contemf late and imitate the Divine Being. So Neme/ius de Naf» Hum. fays, ^11 Things nvere created for Man^ and Man for Immor- tality. And La^antius gives this Reafon for fuch Order of Provi- dence, that Man might confefs and adore his Creator ; which feema the peculiar 7H77;»j o( a i?arto/?a/ Being. And indeed the whole Voice of Anriquiry univerfally acknowledges that the Sovereignty v.nder God and Dominion of Nature was one confequenr Etfe^ of Man's betng created after the Image of God, See Efip6<, Chryfoft, Jheod. H-erm. Plat. &c. B ^ Emblem ( ^o ) Emblem VII.* Tie Fall of MAN. TOO happy Man^ hadft thou, alas! but* known The Force of Nature, e*er thy Choice was gone, Whilft confcious Innocence around thee llione. And Heav'n and Thou wer't Friends : But now no more. For all thy fleeting Scene of Joy is o'er. Go feek the gloomy Grove to hide thy Shame, And barter Heaven for a Hufband's Name : Immortal Joys no longer now are tiiine ; No more fair;native Truth adorns thy iVIind. The ( ai ) The Serpent's now at reft, the Blow is giv'n. And Satan fmiles o'er the fall'n Work of Heav'n. Thy Morning Sun, O World ! is clouded o'er. The Spheres all tremble, and loud Tempefts roar. Thunder, Fate's awful Voice, proclaims thy Doom, And flaming Meteors fliew thy End to come. (a) Efnpyrean Forms, aftonilh'd at thy Fall, Weeping, forget the tuneful Orbs to roll. (b) Ev'n Harmony is ceas'd : The facred Source Of beauteous Order's loft : Stars change their Courfe, To form new Periods, which fhall one Day clofe With Horror on thy Crimes. O thou Firft Caufe Of Being whence we fprang, draw the rich Veil Of Mercy o'er the Scene : Let thy great Will prevail ! Poor Man is loft, the whole Creation mourns. And for thy Day, O God ! impatient burns. NOTES to Emblem VH. (fi) Empyrean /"orwji—Angelick Beinss, or pure infelligenr Spirits, whom the Ancipnrs ima^in'^ inform'd the Spheres, cs theSouJ ol Man does his Body, to give them Motion, cnlling them the Choir or Hoit cf" Heav'n, ar.d Gods, r.an riatiira, fed honoris caufa, for in the firlt Senle only the Gieat li'cma! Father is God. {I) Ev'u Harmony is ceas'c! — That there vi-as a Harmony or Vufick in tl-e Spheres is an Opinion impured zo Pyf^agorai, foUow'd therein by P/ato ;r.d xht ^ca.^.pmicl-s i but ^/•/y?6.''/c' denies it, becaule n oc obvious to the Organick Senles. And indeed the true Meani; g.ot a Harmony in Nature i";, as the Der vation o\ rhe VVord iniporrs, an Ac^refs, FirneP, and Concinniry in every Thing to carrv on the Crestion to a beau'eous Clole, and pay their appointed Tribute of Glory to their Great Grcator, which Fhiierophy nor knoxing ho'*' nrtijrally to account for, atrrib'jted to s S^ ir;: or Sc-ul of the Uruverle. £.%: 3LEM i z% ) 7Z^ EXPULSION, »rT-A I S clone : The World is loll : Moum^ j[ wretched Man, In whom our Nature and our Guilt began ; In Tears of Blood lament thy ruin'd Race Drove from thy native Eden, to polTefs The Earth thy Sins have curs'd ; condemned to Toils. And thou, fair Mifchief, whofe too fatal Smiles 3ooth'd him to Fondnefs, at the coflly Price Of Innocence and Heav'n ; (deflrudive Choice !) Obedience is thy Lot, and Mother's Woes, The Partner of his Ruin as his Vpws, Pehold, ( 2-3 ) Behold, unhappy Pair, the Tempter waits The Iflue of your Crime before the Gates Of (a) Eden's burning Plains -, and laughs to fee Your envy'd Nature Ihare his Mifery : Remember, your (i>J firft Excellence is loft. No more the Strength of upright Nature boaft ; Truft not frail Reafon, too imperfed: grown, But angry Heav'n appeafe, for Heav'n ftill hears its own. But who that's Man with rigid Cenfure dares Condemn the Frailty hJs own Nature wears ? Had any modern He this ^dam been. And Beauty tempted Virtue thus to Sin, Wou'd he have triumph 'd, fav'd Mankind's Difgrace, Refus'd the Apple, and preferv'd his Race? Be cautious then, nor Strength fuperior boail:, "> For often when we think we triumph moft, ? Nature betrays us, and the Man is loll. J NOTES to E M B L E M VIII. (a) Eden's htirr.hig P/i7W— Alluding fo the Cherulim wifii a flam- ing Sword, mention'd Ge?}. iii. 24. which fome of the Rabbi's take to be piierernaru'al Fires, and Corufca-ions all around that Region ; the Remains whereof were deftroy^d by the Flood, fays St. Chrypijiom. {b) Firft Excellence is Iqj} — Man's firft Excellence, fays Mofe^ uas heing created after the Image of God j an upright Inregri'y of Nature, fays St. Amhrofey a Capacity of Immortality without De-th, fay the ftix^jb Rabbi's^ and Nemejius from them ; zwd a convnua! Af-fach of the Vtind to the Contemplanon and Defire of Divine Ohjeds, to which was annex'd the Dominion of Na-'ure, fays Ckrxfiftom, agreeable to that of Hermes \n pQ?m. ' Gud created Maa * after h'S own Likenef?, and gave him Command over all this Ibwer * World, that he might cnn':emplate and love the PerfevHion of his * Goodnefs j but Man falli.igin Lcve wirh his own Perfedion, infttad * of God's, became entangl'd with Corpo eaj Objects, and lolt 'he * Power of diredling his Soul and Heart co God.' B 4 Emblsm IjaA Emblem IX* ry5^ S T A T E (?/ N A T U R E. ES T R A N G ' D from God, and dreadful was the Fate Of ruin'd Nature in the World's firft Dawn ; Reafon, the (a) Shade of our Diviner State, Imperfect Guide, when Uprightnefs was gone. Laments the new-fall' n Man, and mourns to fee Heav'n's Image bow beneath Mortality j He, whofe fair Form v/ith Joy the (i?) Angels faw, V/hofe Will, while innocent, was Nature's Law, (c) Imprefs'd with pure Ideas from Above, Rich Fount of Wifdom and (d) Diviner Love, Become ( iS ) i Become (e) Sathaeh Prey j his Glory's loil. The Scoff of burning Fiends (rebellious Hoft) Whence (J) chain'd to Senfe, we ienfual Things defire, And adt with Joy what guilty Thoughts infpire ; Brave Death's cold Hand, and nurfe the fatal Caufc From whence our firfl: Anathema arofe. Altars and outward Forms fupply the Place Of native Piety and inborn Grace, Thofe Charad:ers of Heav'n, which once we wore, Stampt on our Souls by the Creator's Pow'r. Thus the firft Ages of the World were pafs'd, The Curfe of Nature in her (g) Crimes confefs'd. Man, indolent of Heav'n, unthinldng lay Beneath Sin's fable Gloom, and ilept his Years away, 'Till from Empyrean Worlds rich Tvlercy 'rofe. And Streins prophetick future Peace difclos'd, Myfterious Safety to our Race proclaim'd. And taught us firfl the great (h) Redeeming Name : Then fharp Repentance, with its Thorny Crown, Prepar'd Mankind to make Heav'n's Joys their own ; To weep with Tranfport, whilft in Faith they fee The End of all their Woes, Messiah, clos'd in Tbee. NOTES to Emblem IX. (a) Reafon the Shade of Diviner State— ^'^nYe. with reoard to that Srate wherein «e v;ere created, here term'd Uiviner, on account of its being after the Image of God. (b) Fair Form the Ju^eh-^T\\c JeTtfilh Rahhi's fancy'd that fo fwn as God had created y4dam^ he call'd all the Angels reund him to corsremplate his beautit'ul Work and admire it, which they ail did hut Lucier^ who rel'ufing, was thrown down from Glory, for hts Pride and Contcmpr of the Work of God. ( ^6 ) (f) Will, Nature* s La'!V, imprefs'J, &c. — That is, while innocent, «od under the Direcftion of uncorrupted Reafon, which was given us to be the Guide and Director of our Will, inafmuch as it is dcriv'd, 6ys Aquinas, from the Divine Reafon, which is the eternal Law or Will of God, the Participation whereof in the Rational Creature is the I Ev. &> de laffu Ada. (/) Chain' d to Senfe, &c. — See Note (3) preceding Emblem. The Words of Herm. are very particular : ' Man fell, fays hf, from * the Love and Contemplation of Heavenly Objedls in qenerationis * Sfharam^ Elementarem, vehementer amore ardefcensfui.* Theod. de Prov. has foT.ethiug to the fame Purpofe. (j^) Her Crimes — Alluding to that of Gen.v'i. 13. {h) Redeeming Name -^ The great Ptntagrammaton form'd out of the four Letters in Jeh'jvah, I HVH, and an S inrerpos'd in medio, as the Ca^a/i/?j exprels themfelves, wherer^y is form'd ///i" ^//, in which the two H's have the Power of Greek Heta's, and are fo to be pronounc'd, yefue ; the Caufe of the Letter S being interposed, they fell us, is to denote the Undion of the Humanity with the Divinity in Chrifi., reveal'd 10 Adam by the Angel i^az/V/ after the Fall; and referr'd to by Mq/fjin that Expreffion, T^hen began Men to call upon the Name of the Lord, where the Word Sem, or Name, (abftradted from its Pronoun) confilts but of two Letters, 5" and M, the former, a Note of Un(ftion, being the firft Letter of Samex. oleum, and the laxter fignifyiig de medio, aut de vifceribus ; from whence they make the Name IHSVR, Jehovah, uvEtus in commiferationibus, or God accounted wirh Mercy. Or the Letter M, by another C'a3a///?zV/^ Rule, may be taken to ftand forMf/z^aA, (romM-'fah, UnSus, that is, Chriji^ according to that of Cant. i. 3. Thy Name is as Ointment pour' d forth. So that the true Senfe of that Exprefiion is, Then he^an Mtn to call tijion God in the Name of the promis'd Redeemer^ or Mefliah. Emblem ( ay ) M H L tl M X. T^^Progress of IDOLATRY. WHAT awful Gloom is here ? What folemn State Of Mortal Ruins, Pageantry of Fate ? Thefe Gods? Ye injur'd Heav'ns ! The copy'd Forms Of (a) moulder'd Dull, the rotten Food of Worms. See (b) Hamon in the Midft, whofe poor Remains The Libya?i Marble hides and a fmali Urn contains j Or elfe the (c) Mummy God wrapp'd up in Spice And rich Arabian Balms, in (d) fandy Ocean lyes : (e) Chaldean Priefts iirll taught the liallow'd Deed To (f) Efinyalian Jove^ in myitick Dance to bleed : Mgypt ( ;^8 ) Mgypt (g) unites the Godhead to her Throne, Engrafts the Rite, and makes the Crime her own : In Human Form the molten Idol's caft. And the (h) Gold Ba{on proves a God at laft. Thence (i) Greece deriv'd her Idol Family, A whole Ship's Cargo of Divinity, Gods by the (k) Dozen from thebaic Climes The Patriot brings j fure thofe were pious Times ! This (I) Trunk was Juno^ that great (m) Beam was Jove, One (n) Stone was Cybele, (o) that the Queen of Love, (p) Hermes 2. Sign-Polt, (q) Saturn an old Ram, The Godfliip lunk no deeper than the Name. Thefe j^hens faw, and with full Voice receiv'd, (r) Conqueft had made *em Gods, and Fear believ'd^ Ambition cry'd Ane/i. Each (J) Ifland Lord AlTumes a myflick Title on Record, Mgypi's lewd Race with full Confent explode, And'ev'ry petty Tyrant grows a God; Tombs, Shrines and Oracles confefs their Name, And (t) fportive Daemons join'd to fpread their Fame^ (u) Prophetick Spirits fpoke in ev'ry Grove War's doubtful Horrors, and the Will of Jove. Here long they dwelt, 'till Rome extending wide Her Arms and Conquefts, bow'd the Grecian Pride j Then with loft Pow'r they left their ancient Home, And, born on conqu'ring (iv) Eagles, flew to Rome ; (x) Nwnas Ideal Rites foon loft their Charms, Mens Eyes w^re dazzl'd with the fplendid Forms ; The ( ap ) The Spoils of bleeding (y) Greece Rome's Freedom coft. The V!(flors triumphed, but their Faith was loft : (z) Latiiim's rich Soil increas'd the hallow'd Train, And Droves of Idols fhone in ev'ry Fane : Not Memphis' Self cou'd boaft fuch glitt'ring Swarms, As numerous and dreadfiil as their Arms : The {lately Temples rife in ev'ry Street, A hallow'd Shrine in ev'ry Lane you meet. (aa) Rome grew all Gods j each Day beheld fome Feaft; Each Hour was facred to fome [bb) Nymph at leaft : The Whole was one (cc) Fantheon ; while the Year Cou'd fcarce contain her [dd\ ficred Calendar. Rome ftill is Rome^ tho' Ethnic Forms no more Difguife the modern Idols they adore ; Still they are Idols, and the bended Knee To painted Canvas ad:s Idolatry : The Vow blafphemes, which facred Honour pays To Saints of Marble on their folemn Days ; For that which forms an Objed: to the Senfe Can never be ador'd with Innocence : The Name, tho' chang'd from Heathen God to Saint,' DePirovs not the idolatrous Intent, Since he that worfhips what his Eye can fee. Abjures the Chriftian Faith, and wrongs the Deity. N O T E S ^/; E M B L E M X. {a) Mouldered Dtijt, &c. — So Cic. in Tufc. Thofc wh^ were coll'i the Gods of the greater Nuions, wenr from hence to Heav'nj Jor which Reafon tbeir vSepulchres sre itiil to be i1?en in Greece: And on the fame Account, Hirmes in ^fct. calls Ejjyi't alio the Holy Su.tr of lihrinijs C3o) Sirines and Temples full of Sepulchres 5 thaf i<, of theft Gois wfio were worfliip'd in thofe Temples, whofe Bodies, fays Eu/e^. in pr, the Egyftia;2?t'\e9is own'd they had buried in their Temples, but their Souls were migrated to the Srars, in Honour of whom the primitive: Idolaters us'd to hold folemn Rites and Feafts, mention'd by the holy Pi'almiil in reproach of Ifrael, that they join'd themfel'ves to Baal- feor^ and at? the Offerings of the Dead: So Ninus did, and eredieda jPilhr to his Father Belas, by the Name of Baal-aritz Dotf.ini pra- validi, miftaken by the Greeks lor their ^res, ot. Mars ^ lb Nabo^ najfar d\A ^t Bahylon to his Father P?v//; {0 the Egyptians to JJiSf OJ/is, &c. and the Greeks to ^phat-eus, mention'd by Theocritus. (/;) HaitTTion — Generally taken to be the Image of Jupiter Belus^ or the vgvptiap. Saturn, in Form of a Ram, fe- up by hii Son Bacchus^ or Ofiris, on his Return from his Libyan Conquelb, when being; in great wantof Water, he met a Ram, who led him to a Spring in that Place, where he afterwards built this Temple, and fer up this Idol, fci limous for its Oracular Predidlions, in Honour of his Father Ammon : Eut others think it was not in Shape of a Ram, but a Man with a Ram's Head, or rather with a Helmet on, having Ram's Horns at the Temples, as we fee dcpidted in iome antique Figures, which I take to be the Senfe of Lucan, the Ram's Horns being the Hieroglyphick of Strength. And Athenodortis in Clem, mentions the fettingup an Irrage ro his Anceftors Ofiris and Apis by Sefo/his, who was the Egyptian Bacchus, on his Return from his Grand Expedition to Greece. Now Nonnusm Dion, tells us, that 5fla/, ox Belus, the Libyan Ammon ^ Apis of the ISi/e, and Saturn, or the yijjyrian Jupiter, were the fame ,• and from the Statues of rheSun thrown down by Jofiah, being term'd Charahanim, from Chamha, Sol, Ardor, irom whence the Word Havimon is very eafily form'd ^ which, Suidas fays, is the Sig- infication alfo of the Name Ofiris .- It appears very probable, that they and Ofiris were the lame alio, and all intended as Images of t: e Sun \ fo that Baal Hammon may properly be term'd Jupiter Ardens, uniefs ycu will make it relate to the Amoun of lamblichus in Emblem I. Kote {b). Near this Temple ftood the Fountain of the Sun. (c) Mummy Go^?— Alluding to what was faid in Note {a) of the Eodies of their Deify'd Kin^s remaining in their Temples, prelerv'd v^irh Gums and Spices, as others in tl e Catacomhes, and formerly in the Pyrani.ids, which are the true Mum.my. {d) Sandy Oceans — Libyan Defarts, whofe loofe 'Mountains of Sand are carry'd by the Winds from Place to Place, like Waves of the Sea, overwhelmin;^ Travellers, Caravans, and once the whole Army of Cambyfes, fays Herodotus, going to burn the Temple of Amnion. The Remains of fi.ch Deltrudions there, are mention'd hy Lucan. (e) Chaldean P/-/?/?i — Alludirg to the firft idolatrous Rires being inftiturcd in Chaldea, or Sennaar, where Jofephus from Hepioeui fells us, the Piiells of Jupiter Ennyalius^ having efcap'd the De- ftrutSion of Mankind, came and brought rhe holy Rites with them, uhich 1 take t > intend the Colony under Cham and Nimrod, who had at nrft the Rites of the true God among them ; but fojn degenerated, and fet up Pillars to 5fla/, as has been already mention'd, pervert- ing the Worlhip of the true God to the fuperllitious Ceremonies of Baal (31 ) Saai And Omorcha, ot nther Baal OmorcBa, Deus I/itindatioms^ from whence the Greek Word Ennyalius leems to have been form'd, Apo tou enmtontoi tan orgcen autou en alos, from pouring out his Wrath in a Fiood; thence term'd Deum, Jive Sfintum, intelligentem Mdrinum, (f) Efinyalian Jove — See precedino Note. The Greeks miftook him for Mars Sylvanus, as Macrob. Pint, and Sigon. teftify, whom the Lacedamomans kept bound, that he might not depart from them. Dion. Hal. thinks the Sahins, and from them the Romans, had the fame Notion of this Deity, under the Name S^iri?iuSy that he was either Mars, or fome other who had like Honours ar.d Rites paid him as Mars had ,* the Error arifing, as I imagine, from the Greeks con- founding the Baal Aritz Dominus ■pntvalic/us, to whom iV/««i erefled the Pillar, with their Ares, or Mars, from the Affinity of Sound, whom they therefore fuppos'd to have been the nr.oft ancient God of the Chaldees, as this Ennyalias was, applying- at the fame Time the Name of Enn^fo to the Sifter or Wife of Mars, as the Chaldees did that of Omorcha to the Sifter or Wife of Belus, whom they worfhip'd with bloody Rites, probably like thofe of BaaPs Prielis on Mount Carmel^ mention'd in the 2d of Kings. But Homer rightly calls him Zem^ that is, Jupiter Ennyalias. :■ (g) Mgypt unites, &c. — See Notes (a) and (3), alfo Emblem!. Note {!>). From hence arofe ;he Tieoi fatrooi. Paternal Gods of the Egyptians, confifting chiefly of the eight Cabiri, or great and ancient Gods, Sons of Mi/ri, ind four tf the Sefojlrian Famiiy, added to 'em by the yojnger Hermes^ making the twelve Gods of the greater Nations. {h) Gold Bapjn-—Antafis rebelling againft Apries, King of Egypfy V as refus'd to be acknowledg'd as King, fays Herodotus, 'till prevaiiing on the People to woriliip a liitle Golden Idol he made of a Eafon us'i before to wafh Hands in, he argu'd from thence, that there wa» as much Reafon for receiving him as Kir.g, who was iormerly a mean Subjeft, as for owning that to be a God A'hich was belore only a Bafon to wafti Hands in. (f) Greece deriv'd, &:c. —See Kotc fg), and Emblem I. Note (d). (k) By the Dozen — The twelve Dii majorum gentium, referr'd to in Note (g), receiv'd by the AmphiSi'>?iick Council from Egypt, and an Altar erecTted to 'em, mention'd by Herodotus. {I) fhis Trunk 'a-as ]uno, &c. — The or-giml He^th?nGod%, fays Clement, were Pillars and Column=:, intimating thereby, that no bodily Reprefentation could be m de cf the Divinity, oi which he mentions feveral i as one of Bacchus; another, or rather feveral others, of Juno^ ont oi Apollo ^t Del phos, &c. which they term'd Xoa/zct, or Reprefentations of the Deity by living Forms : But I rather take the true Xoana to have been the fini Images in H'jm,an Form cut out of thofe Pillars of Wood or Stone to the Waili", all beloA' that remaining as before, cf which Kind rfae twelve fo-j^i'/j^ Gods are fuppos'd to have been, when firft brought toGreece; which when afterwards im- prov'd to entire Human Forms, with Legs, Wing?, &c. and Ibms made automatous, or felf moving, like rhe Trifods of Vulcan, as mention'd by AriJlotU de fol. were term'd Dadala, from Dad.-\lus, chi ( 3^) tliefirft Inventor of fuch Kind of Machinery, theOccafion, probably^ of the Lacediimonians fettering their Enuyalius, as mention'd before, that he might not run away, as Plato hints in Menone about fuch Kind of Statues. (w) This Beam 'was Jove— -See preceding Note. \n\ One Stone ivas Cybelle — Livy affiires us, that the Image of the Pff.>yuntiaf2 Cybelle, when brought to Rome, was only a great Stone. Sacer LaCis is the Term he gives it. Befides which the Romans had a. Jupiter Lapis, which I take to hive been the Simulachrum Ficlei^ reprefented by Blondus a-; a great fquare Stone, from the Top whereof ilTu'd three Heads, one of a Man intending Honour, the fecond of a Woman intending Truth, and the third of a Child intending Love. (o) That the '^een of Love — Venus Urania, worfhipp'd by Arabians under ths Name of Alilat, as Bacchus was under that of Du^ares, or Ourotalt, as Herodotus calls him j the Symbol of the former was a great fquare Stone j and that of the latter a Cone, which wan preferv'd by Syrians at jlntioch, who pretended it fell from Heaven. The Word Dufares feems to be a Corruption of 7.eus Arifs, the AJJyrian Baal, as mention'd in Notes (a) and {h), by viiiich molt agree rhey meant the Sun, as Symbolically reprefenring the one Almighty Being, who ^ttSy woverns^ influences, and enlivens all T hings. (^) Hermes a Sign-Poft — The Greeks in Crofs-ways us'd to fet up Trunks with three, ibmetmes four. Heads, one pointing to each Road, in Nature of our Crofs-pofts, which were term'd ^adrati Hermetes, having neither Legs nor Arms, and in Reproach Cylloi^ that is, lame Gcds; and from rhem a good-for-nothing Fellow is by Demetrius Phalarcus term'd a ^fcldrctus Hermes : Hence Hermes, or JV.ercury, obtain'd the Title ot Enodius, as prefjding over the High- ways i and Diu Taith, or Teutatcs, that is, the God of Travellirg. Livy fpeaks of one of theie Handing on an Eminence ner Carthage^ in Jfrica by that Name. Thefe were the Srarucs, Numbers whereof being eredlcd in j!thens, y^lcihiades threw down, j and m.uch of the fame Stamp was the Sc;\fue of the Cylionian Mercury, whether la cali'd a McnteCylhnio, or that Hill from thefe Cylii, mutilated Trunks, 1 won't pretend ro determine ,• but Herodotus makes the Pelafgi the fiift Inventors of 'cm, who were originally an Egyptian Ptoplif, and faughr the Athenians ro make them. («) Snt\iin an old Ram — Herodotus Uys, his Statues both in the TciT.ples cf Tkeies and Li/ya had Rams He-ds. The Occaliun of that Symbol is mention'd I eiorein Note (b). {r) Congwfr made 'tm Gods — Tl,ey being receiv'd by Greece fo-^n afrer Sefcjtris's Conq til of Argos, and other Parrs thereof, in his oiapd Kxpedifion. (f) Each Ijlatjd Lord — hs Minos \r\ Greet, Thoas \n le'vm, and many mote on tie Continent alfo, who aliumcd Divine Honour^, ui Contempt of the Igyftia?: Murhology, and fo obrain'd the greater Authority over thtit Subj'-cfls, fays Cleme7:t. (/) Sportive Dstmons — That whatever was prodigious or prcer- ratural in the Gcntil S', Item, was not only attribured by them to the Power and S^giicity of fubtle, intelligent Spirits, whon, f-r their great Knowledge ot Things, ihey teroi'd Da-mo/iS, that is, ^ulde Scientes^ but ( 33 ) but o»'n*d tifo by us fo to be, juhente aut fermittente Deo^ is evi- dent from the VVritings of the wil'eft and mod judicious borh Chrijiians and Heathens^ as Hermes^ Plato, Herodotus, Cicero^ Plutarch, Porfhiry, lamhlicus, Cyprian, tertulliat:, La^antius^ jiujiin, Ifidore, ^heophylaS, Hcinus, Aquinas, and many more r Kay, even the Sacred Scriptures themfelves atreft it,- and the Mofaie Syftem, excepting in that Atheijlical Sedt the Sadducees, univerlally acknowledg'd it, as may be I'cen in the Works of their moft ancienc «nd moft learned Rabbi's, (u) Prophetick Spirits-— See preceding Note. Thefe Spirits, fays J/idore, have a far greater Kna*-ledge of Things than Human Infirmity will permit,- fo alio fays 0/-?^?«i and partly by their Penetration, partly by Experience, and pardy by Revelatioji from the Angels, thro' Divine Permiflion, know and reveal Things ftrange and fur- prizing to Mankind. What thefe Spirits are, that which attended the Oracle of Apollo In LaSanfius confelTes, faying. He was one of thole Digmons who continually traverfe both Heaven, that is the Air, ind Earth, under the Scourge of God. {nv) Conqu' ring Eagles — The Roma?2 Exxugns^ faid to have been firlt born by Marcus in the Cimbrian War. («•) Numa'j Ideal Rites-^He was, fays Livy, Jtuthor Divini Juris, among the Romans, and forbid any Reprefenrations of the Deity, thinking, with Pythjgoras, it was Sacrilege ro reprefent thac pure Be[ng by material Forms or Images, which were banifh'd the i?5m.3« Temples 170 Vears, fays P/.v/". in Nuwj ; therefore theSa/:ra, he taught, arc terr^iM Ideal Rites, as they requir'd God to be worlhip'd pura mente, as Cato expreifes it. f'y) Bleeding- Greece-— Intending as well Grecia Magna, or Calabria, in Italy and Sicily^ both Peopled by Greei Coloiiies, as proper Greece ^ from whole conquer'd Cities the Romans brought moll of their Idols, inlomuch that i^orr? was all Gods, when burnt by the Gauls, ziCamiJlus in Livy, difftiading the P<;ople from leavin<^ its Ruins, alledges, Uying, It was hallow'd by continual Auguries and Invocations of the Gods, there being no Place in it but wh ir was full of their Worfhip, nor no Day unconl'ecrated by lome holy Rite. (2) Latium'j rich Soil — Tb.e Country about Rom?, fo call'd a late.ido, \:om ^jJerius, or ^j/r/r^'s concealing himfelf there from his Son Minus, or the Cretan Jupiter^ und«r the Protection of Janus, King of the Aborigines, aporougenores^, a Race of Mountain Jroglodytes that liv'i in Caves. {a.i) Rome^rfw ail Gods — See End of Note (y). [bh) Nymph — Thcle ^rrealower Rank of Deities, whom the Htathen worlhlp'd by Dozens and Fiicies at a Time j of chele were two Kinds, the Urur:ia, oj»HeavcnIy, and the Meliirr, or Terre- firial: Among the former rhey reckon'd the Hyades, Pleiades, and Calejiial Sirens, or thoie P/^ro^zc Beings who Antiquity iancy'd had the Chargeof rolliiig the Sphere, and were the Authors of their Harmony ; The terrejirial weredividtii \u<.oOrcadcS oi the Mounraint, Dryades •t the Woods, Hamadryadsai f!ie Groves, Zf-^c^/a^^iof the Fieldj and iSlfadows, Napxif of the Fou.Ttain*, Naiades of the !> rcain^ iiufidei oJ the Sea, and iieveru ir.ore, \q the Number of thre§ O cbouuiiJ, ( 34) tVoufand, according to Hrjiod^ hut confin'd by Virgil to (wo hundred. They were call'd Nymphs^ hec-jiui'e oci ncai phainof:fai, they appear always young, on which Account Oil and rioney were al>A'ays offer'd *em, thence call'd Melijfo'^ feme ct' 'em having firft found Honey in Greet j or rather from their being look'd on as the Authors of Gaiety and Pie. fjre. [cc] Pantheon —- k xounA Temple in Rome, buiit by y^grippa to all the Gods, like that Altar in Attica, mencion'd by Herodotus, ro the twelve Gods m tjorum Ger.tium, which feme take to be the Dii Confentes, ^^ouf's Privy Counfellors, of the i?). (g) Primogemal Fields—- See Ennb, 1. Not. (c) (d) (k). This alfo alludes to the Affeftation the E^y/EJ/Zfl/;; had of being thought to poflt'fs the moft ancient Sears of Mankind; whence they derive the Jjynafties of their Gods, from an Original whofe AUra exceeds the >\cTe of Nature, were it notcorrefled by reducing it to ftiorter Periods than the Sun's annual Courfe. (h) Japhet'si'o'; — Japhet, ox Japettts, was one of thtTxtans^ and Brother of Ofuis^ who debauching his Wife Clymene, {probably the Mother by him of Phaeton) occafion'd thole bloody Jars between them, which ended in the Deftrudion of both. (/) Everlajiing Fire — So call'd by Virgil, ■ et manihiis liitias, Veflamq; potentem^ JEternuma., adpis, efert penetraUbus Jgnem, Some ( 39 ) Some think they s^ave it the Ktme of Fe/fa, quafi aOh-ja^ the Fire of God, which was never lufler'd ro go out in the Temple of yerufalem. But the Chalde°% uorfhip'd Fire long before, and gave the Name of Ur to their Chief City from therce, from which Aoraham efcap'd to worfhip the Living Gnd. So Camillus alfo in Livy terms the Veftal Fire, JEtertios licfta: ign;:. (k) Fair JEtherial Bride — yrtno. (/) 5jm75 — See Emb. VII. N t. (3), and Emb. X. Nor.(<^,''). But the moil common Accepration of the Word is for the three Mufical Daughters of y^chelous zr\A Terfjichore^ or, asServiui has it, Calli'>fe, who being prefenr, i'ays Ovid, r.t the Rape of Prq/fr^f-vp, were, in Companion to their Grief lor the Lofs of her, turn'd iiuo Mermaiils, who haunting firft the Sicihan and then Caprcean Coafts, by their Melody invited PalTcngers on Shore, and lulling them aileep ^'\'\% Pleafure, kil 'd 'em ; but being reilfted by Ulyfjes, lays Horner ia Odyf. drown'd themfelves, from one of whom, i am'd Parthenope^ bury'd where Naples now iiands, that City took its original Name Farthenopeia, fays Strabo. (m) Hope— ^By Theog'ns is (probably from hence) term'd/y/a Dea bona viris i for th^t when all the other Gods and GoddeHes wttie re- turn'd to Heaven, flic only Itay'd behind. C4 Emblem (4o) Emblem XIL No Fate above VIRTUE. L D (a) Hermes taught, three thouland Yean _ ago. That Scarry Orbs rul'd our dark World below ; (b) Aerial Forms in ev'ry Sphere confines ; This mourns in Saturn^ that in Venus lliines ; One rides a Sun-Beam, t'other mounts a Star ; Some footh to peaceful Arts, fome call to War, Flato from hence, and (c) Fythagorean Dreams^ Rapt to Ideal Worlds, his Syftem frames : Each Planet holds fome (a) fall'n Angel's Seat, Doom'd tliere to pafs his (e) Teletary State : Abflraded (41 ) Abflraded Nature with luch Art refines, He almofl leaves Intelligence behind. The Soul affrighted at his aery Hoft, Flags her dull (f) Wings, and 'inidil: Abflradllon's loft. This Ariftotk found, and in a Rage Drove all Platonic Beings off the Stage. Zeno to Fate immortal Power aflign'd. Scarce confcious of the one Almighty Mind. Let Nature then on Nature's Laws debate. And hold a blind NecefHty in Fate, We, wifer grown, from a Diviner Ray, Enjoy the hunwi of a brighter Day ; The Human Soul to nobler Joys extend. Thro' Faith to Virtue, thence to Glory tend ; By facred Prudence form'd, from Rules Divine, Triumph o'er Nature, and Fate's Power confine. NOTES on Emblem XII. (a) Hermei ■• See before Emb. I. Note {h). {b) Serial Forms — Stt Herm. yatrjmath. ad y^mon, (c) Pythagorean Dreams — See Diog. Laer. in vie. Plat, {dj FallenA»gelSee Emb.VII. Not. (a), and Emb. X. Not.(0(«). (e) Teletary State— Ses Emb. XV. Note (A). (fj li'ings—'Ste Plato in Phtfdro. Lunus and Lunz in tke Cut --^The Sun and Moon, or, as fome think, the Mjiival and Hyemal Sun, whom the Palmyrians, and alf* the People ot Gahala, worftiip'd under the Names of Heliogabalus, or, as the old Pj/mj^re/j? Infcription has it, ^glaibolus^ and Mjlak BeluSy brought by Aurelian the Emperor to Komcy where is a BaJJk Releiva of them in the Gardens oi Farnefe. a Copy whereoi we fee in Mr. IVrigbt'i Italy, Emblem (40 Emblem XIII. PIETY. HO W lovely, yet how awful, is that Form ! How fweet the Influence ! How flrong the Charm ! Hail ! facred Harbinger of Heavenly Reft ; Of Virtues, hail ! thou Greateil, and thou Beft : Thy Heart flies upward to the Realms Above ; Thy Voice is Prayer, and thy Soul pure Love ; Truth's hallow'd Symbol, in its native Sphere, Shines in thy glowing Breafl: j Devotion there Burns like rich Incenfe, or the (a) Vejlal Fire, Type of Seraphic Flames, and chafl Defire. No (43 ) No glittering Toys, which weaker Minds adore. No Joys of Greatnefs, nor no Charms of Pow'r, Draw thee from Heav'n, Thee Guardian Angels tend, Patron of Widows, and the Orphan's Friend. Thee the FIrft Being loves. The iirft form'd Pan- Had ne'er loft Paradife, hadfl: thou been there : The Lofs of Thee our ruin'd Nature coft, Immortal Excellence and Virtue loft. Long wer't thou banifli'd ; but at length return'd On peaceful Wings ; Nature no longer mourn'd. When ftie firft faw thee make thy great Abode In the bleft Bofom of a faftering God : Thence in iEtherial Streams deriv'd on Man, By Thee the World's Redemption firft began ; Th'enlighten'd Univerfe from Death arofe. And Martyrs flaming Crowns by thy Perfuafionchofe. In Thee reftor'd Heaven's Image ftood confeft, y The Guide and Gloiy of the Human Breaft, > And Earth and Nature were again at Reft. -> NOTE to Emblem XIIL {a) Veftal f/rf—See Emb. XI. Not. (r) and (i). The Per/^iKS preferv'd it on an Altar like a Hearth in the Temple of Xi'z in Media, where the Magi pretend Zoroa/ier, their Fojnder, plac'd it. The Greeks call'd it Hejieia, and kept it on Pyrethias, or Altar Hearths, in their Temples ; as dii the Romans, under the Name of Vejla, committing it to the Charge of fix Virgins, call'd ^matiS, from the Name of the firft, wholi Bufinefs was to keep it always burning. Embleu ( 44 ) Emblem XIV. PRAYER. PR A Y * R is the Groans of Nature in Diftrefs, The Door of Mercy, and the Voice of Peace: Who prays in Hope, the facred Accents rife. Like hallow'd Incenfe, Love's befl Sacrifice : The pious Heart with Heav'nly Tranfport burns ; The Soul with facred Pangs her Imperfeaion mourns : Faith wings Defirc, Almighty Mercy hears. And peaceful Joys fucceed the flowing Tears. But fee thou hear thyfelf, elfe all's in vain, Th** Prav'r unheard returns unheard again. ^ Attention (45 ) Attention gives It Force. The careleis Saint Like Parrots prays, (a) unknowing what they want Where the Thought's abfcnt, there is no Defircj The Incenfe cannot burn without fome Fire. Let the Heart pray, then Heav'n will furely hear • Not Sound, but {^) true Devotion makes the Pray'r So the iirfl Saints and burning Martyrs pray'd : So Christ with painful Strains his Offering m'ade- Pour'd forth with facred Fervour all his Soul While the big Purple Drops down Iiis blefl Temples So JuM's Royal Penitent we find Inflam'd with nervous Accents, while his Mind , ^'^'^'^ behhd''''^ ^""'^'^'^ ^""^ ^'^^ Mortality- NOTES fo Emblem XIV. •long, .^nkr.owir.g .hat h. fcu»ht '""'"""S -'o"". That he pjfs'i ('■)■ EMBLBNt {4^) E M B L E M XV. PHAETON. VID, whofe Song charms all our Youth, Had Fancy been adorn'd widi Truth, The fweeteft Bard that ilruck the Lyre, Tells, how once Phcebus knt his Fire To fair [a) Clpie?te's lovely Son, One {hort diurnal Courfe to run, Enliv'ning Nature, in his Room, While he carcus'd with Friends at Home, The Youth in Rapture feiz'd the Reins, Drives over Mountains, Seas, and Plains, Lofes (47 ) Lofes the bright (^) Mtherial Way, And gilds untrodden Worlds with Day. No more the footy /Ethiop glows. Nor cold (c) Cimmerian Realms are froze ; Chilis' fcorch'd Sons forget to mourn. And tlie tall Pines of Scythia burn. The flacken'd Rein {d) Eons finds. Fierce Pklegon fcents tli' {e) Etefian Winds. The Youth no more the Steeds obey. But wide from the (f) Ecliptic flray; With burning Hoofs the lEther tread. And flart to fee (g) Medufa^ Head : ' Down (Z/) Cancer' % Precipice thev fly. Where Souls in Troops forfake the Sky, As Fla^o firfl: from Hermes tauo-ht And puny Wits from them have wrote ; 'Till to our Atmofphere he came. And fet our (/) Planet in a Flame. J O FE, when he faw what Work he madir Of all the other Orbs afraid, Thunder'd the V/hipfler at a Blow Down to the flaming Worlds below. So have I feen a fmart young Blade His faving Father newly dead, Blaze through the Town, by all carefs'd. And turn a perfect Man of Tafle : His fliining Fleaps of old Moidores, Like younger Sons, turn'd out of Doors; His purchas'd Manfions fly apace Before the Magic of Duce-Ace : Champain, and Burgundy, and Claret, Is the great All he would inherit,, ( 48 ) Mingl'd with Love's delightful Scenes, Ridotto's, Balls, and Harlequines : *Till Health deftroy'd, and Fortune gone. He dies with Grief to fee himfelf undone. NOTES 07% Emblem XV. {a) Clymene^s Son-^ Phaeton^ fabled to be the Son of Clymene and Sol^ but in Truth of OJiris and J/u, (OJiris, in the Egyptian Tongue, fignifying the Suri) otherwife term'd Pheton and Horus j whofe untimely Death by Zerah^ the Mthiopian^ on the Banks of" mie^ after a fliort Reign of ten Years only, happening foon after a great Conflagration, perhaps by the Irruption of Vefuvio, and fome other Vulcano's in feveral Parts of Italy, feems to have given Birth to the poetic Story, uniting thofe Incidents together i for that Phaeton's Death happened not in Italy, but Ethiopa or Egypt, we learn from 7heophraJitis, who, according to SabelUcus in h\%Enfjeads, affirms that PhaetonV Shrine and Oracle renmin'd long after in thai Country .• So the Egyftian Priefts are charg'd by Plato in Tinuro to have told Solon, that the --tory of Phaeton was grounded on a real FaB, the Memory whereof was preferv'd by them in their Sacrea Monuments. And the whole Voice of Chronology places this Event very near, if not coincident with, the Time of 0/Jris} whofe tiue Place in the Egyptian Annals is judicioufly dcnonfirated by Sir Jfaac Neil-ton in his Hi/lory of' ancient Kingdoms amended, where he proves him to be the j'ame wich Sefojlrii and Shijlac. Jl^ollo-' Worn', makes Phaeton to be the Son of Tithon, the Son of Laomedon, and Brother of Priamus, King ol Troy ; whom Bacchus, or Ofiris^ carry'd away Captive into Egypt, in his Rerurn from his Grand Expedition, and marry'd him to his Neice Aurora, by whom he had Phaeton, or JEmatheon, and Mcnvion, or Amenophis, King of (6) JEtherial Way -— A. Line cutting the Zodiac lengthwifc exaflly in the Midil, and under which the Sun invariably moves ; therefore term'd his Courfe, Way, Orlit, &c. It is alio called the Ecliptic, becauic either the ConjunSiion or OpCo/ition of the two great Lumi- narics cinder it, vrhen in the Nodes, produces ^nExlipfe ; the former of the Sun, by the Interpofuion of the Moon's BoJy befwcen that Planet and us ,• the latter of the iV/i/o/?, by the Earth's inteivccning between it and the Sun. (f) Cimmerian Realms -^^ The Cirr.merii, according to Tacitin. Emblem (^4) E M B L E xM XXIL i:h Temple of TRUTH. CALM breath'd the Ev'ning Air, in breezy Gales, leaden with Odors from the flow'rv Vales, Colled:ed Sweets in balmy .Dewdrops hung, The Groves all eccho'd with the tuneRd Songs Of [a) Fhilomell\ fad Woes ; when, fidl of Thought, The Charms of Solitude Afnyjitor fought. Long his enquiring Soul had wifh'd to know From whence Eternal Truth began to flow ; What facred Source diifus'd the glorious Ray ; How firll th'enlightning Beams began to nlay -, If ( 6s ) If in the (^) Seeds of Nature once contain'd. The lovely Being in the Mafs remain'd ; Whence Vice and Virtue, Truth and Falrtiood rofe, 'Eftablifh'd by the Firfl Almighty Caufe ; Or if the hallo w'd Entity began W^ith native Virtue in the Soul of Man ; If, -.ftream'd from Heav'n, the Breath iEtherial fiow'djj And gave us innate Notice of a GOD. Thus, mufmg with himfelf, Aniintor flray'd. To find the Covert of a pleafing Shade, There on the Moffy Bank he lay'd him down Beneath a fpreading Oak, with Ivy bound. Nature, unbent, refign'd to fweet Repofe, The {c) downy God his weary'd Eyelids clos'd: \\\ plealing Forms the Ibft Ideas rile. And footh him with imaginary Joys ; The adive Soul, on waking Thoughts intent. The awful Temple of fair Truth prefents ; The Ihining Frame tranfparent Beauty fliews, Beauty 1 which not from Art, but Nature flows ; For Nature there was All j no Gilding flione j No fludy'd Ornament enrich'd her Throne ; An Adamantine Rock fupports her Seat, Cut from its fliining Bed, without Adorning neat. On this the bright JLmpyrean I'orm was iz^'iV^ Eafy her Air, her Countenance ferene, Compos'd as Innocence ; no Pride dwelt there. But humble Smiles, a Modcily fincere. And piercing Looks, delightful, tho' fcvere : One Hand her Symbol in its Glory bore, His Rays all glitt'ring in the burnifh'ci Ore ^ E T'other ( 66) T'other, Heavn's holy Will, the Hicred Code Of Truths eternal, and the Laws of GOD : JFaitb^ Hopi\ and Hcav'n-born Love around her flew. Above the op'ning Clouds falute the View ; In them th'Immortal, All-creating [d) Name Sparkl'd in Letters of Mtberial Flame, Whence Streams of lucid Day ihot round the Dome, So Pvays of Light from (e) Oriait Chambers come ; The glowing Purple makes all Nature gay. And chears the joyful Univerfe with Day ; Ainbrcfial Sweets from fmoaklefs Altars flow, Whilfl Fame and Faljhood mourn in Chains Below : When thus the Goddefs fpoke Mortal^ arife^ Shake off thy Doubts^ thy Prafrs have reached the Skies ; Know^ from eternal Depths my Fffence flows ^ Inherent to the one Ahnighty Caufe, With tjpe Firft AB of Entity I 'rofe, (d'^) Wifdcm and 7, eer Nature ivas defignd^ Ex if ed in the Great Almighty Mind-, Aniidfi the (f) "aafi Ideas 1 abode. On each a Law imtnutable beflow'd. Cave the fl?-Jl SanBion to the great Decree, By whofe known Fiat they began to be -, Cave each dependant Caife its proper Weighty ^Aid Hxd thefeal'd Necejities of Fate, From me alone the Caufe and Reafonflow, 'fVhy things eternal are for ever Jo j B^caufe Eternal Truth the Word has fpoke , Which not Omni^Qtence can eer revoke ^ "That ( ^7 ) "That IVord*s e/fe?2fidITRVTiij whence in pure Streams^ Like Light and Heat from the Stm's gmial Bcar.is^ Thro* Livifig Forms ^ with Life diffus'd^ I ran^ And with her Maker s Image fiamfd the new-form' d Man. With Reafonfirfl: incorporate I lay\ The Pride of Nature, 'till that fatal Day When Nature fell ', then back to Heaven Ified^ Lrror her pois7ious Dews o'er Rcafonfjed: Benighted long, the ruin'd Race wtfit on From Guilt to Guilt, wanting my Light, undone ; 'Till, ino'v'd to Pity, veiled infuff'ring Love^ I left my Manpons of the Blefsd Above, In Evangelic Streams to Earth returned. And in the faming Breafts of Martyrs bunid. In (g) holy CharaBers enflorin'd I live. And f acred Force to pious Lediures give z In humble Faith's pure Manfion 1 refde, Banif d from haughty Reafons impious Pride j Reveal my Beauties only to the Wife ; But pompous Folly and her Arts defpife. Jf then Eternal Truth you long to fee. Take up thy Crofs, brave Touth, and follow me. She fpoke and ftrait he faw the Goddefs rilb On Cherubs frasirant Wing;s to Azure Skies : Angelic Hofls in dazzling Crowds appear, And fing her Welcome to the Burning Sphere ; Harmonious Orbs in facrcd Concert roll, Salute the welcome Pow'r, and g^.ad his lifr'ning Soul. :E a Here ( 68 ) Here clos'd the glorious Scene: The Youth awoke. And flrait his Way to lonely Defarts took; Vv'idi pious Tears corrupted Nature mourns. And his whole Breafl with Love of Truths Eternal burns. NOTES to Emblem XXIL (a) Philomela — Daughter of Pandioit^ K\ng of Athens, fabJ'd by Or/V ro be furn'd into a Nighringaie. (/>) Seeds 0/ Nature — fheie tlie Stoics held to be primarily in God, whom Se/jeca therclnre ferms Incortoream Rationem ingentium operum: Which Seedr, or Ratior.es^ they look'd upon as incorrupti- ble, and the-elore believ'd they fhould remain unconfum'd in the General Confl'grarion, to prodi;ce new Worlds. I look upon them to be the fame with Plato's Exemplary Forms i Dsmocritas'sParjfpermia^ which he rook \xom Mochus, the Pha:nicia!2 ; Epicurus's Atoms i yin^xagorush Omoiomeria j and AriJlotic\ Infinite and Eternal Mat- ter. SeeEmb. XXVIf. Nore(a). (c) Doirny God-^ Morpheus, Son of Somfius, uhofe Office was to reprefent pleafing Images, motf'has, to the fleepii^ Senfes, whence ariib Dreams. {d) Immortal Name "^-FeclSote (a), Emb. I. (?) Ouent Ciamhers— -The Ancients thought the Su^ had two Chambers, one on the ia,-?, or Orient, and the other on the U'ejl of Heav'n y frum the former whereot he came in the Morning, and re- rir'd to the oihor in the Ev'ning, going back again above the Flrma- tr.ent during the Nijjhr, ai.d ttieretire invifible to us ^ But the Holy Scriptures make ule of this Term to fignily the Apartments or Divili- ons of the Heav'n, call'd by Aitrologers Hout'es ; alio the Signs of the Zodiac, or Mazaloth of Joh ; and lometimes the Spheres, or Orbs of tht l-'ianetary Svltem. Ste yob ix. 9. Pfal. civ. 2, and Amos ix. 6» si lb yerom, St. Atijlin, Lyra, yutiius, Ifidore Clar. Ben Ifrael^ and hlercerus, upon rhoi'e Places. {ee) llijdom and f, &c. — Prov. vili. 12, &:c. (r) Vi'ji Idea.'-— Of future Worlds in the Almighty Mind, the yf/i ckeiypos, or Mundus PxemplUr, of the P/a/o«;cSyftem, in which, 4a y rhey, omnes continentur forma: ct exemfhiria rerum ficiendarttm ; «.r, to ule St. Aujiin's Exprcilion in Ketr. the eternal and im.mutib/e Re:dbn of God, by which he made the Worlds : Tho' Cleirent, I think, is m'>re plain, where he delcribe; thele Ideas to be Intetli- gentia Dei, feu cjUtd a tt^nte divinu intelligitur i this, fays he, by tht Barbarians is term'd Logos 'TheoUy id ell, Verbum^ Jive Roktio^ Dei. See bcJore En^bi. ill. N«r. («■). Emblem (<59) j«- £ M B L E M XXIII. 72^ * F R E C I P I C E. HO W deep the Precipice ! How vaft the Fall ! Beware, OChriflian! and defend thy Soul. See how the ar^gry D.^mon drives thee on, Shews the curfl Fruit by which thou wer't undone , While Rebel Nature in Love's artful Form Guides thee to Ruin with its fiir falfe Charm. ,From Edens£.\td\ BowVs we trace the Scene, Where Beauty tempted Virtue nrfl to Sin, Where Reafon fell a Sacrifice to Pride ; Our {a) Glory vanill:i'd, and our [b) Nature dy'd i E Whenc 1 ( 70 ) Whence we no more can native Virtue boaft. Since Uprightnefs witli Innocence was loft. Hence our firft Years we fpend in fportive Joys^ And ev'ry Tranfport ev'ry Scnfe employs j Imperfed: Nature Reafon fcarce obeys. But ev'iy Objedt ev'ry Wifh betrays 5 Inaames deftrudive PaiTion, 'wakes Defii-e, And fets the heated {c) Microcofme on Fire. Our fki^-form'd Excellence is now no more. We owe our Safety to Almighty Pow'r ; (d) Seraphic Beings needful Aid beflow, Drive back Defpair, and ward the dreadful Blow. NOTES on E M B L E M XXIII. {a) ih) See before E.tiM. VHI. Nor. (^). (c) hh'croco/ine — Lirtle World j Man lo call'd, from his cn^aining in himfelf an Epi'ome of un'verlal Nature: In his Body, or Vegeta- tive SublHnce, rhe Elementary Par.icksand Qualirie:,- mhis Animai Syftem, the Animation of Coelcftial Influence j in his Wifdom and IntelleiT, the Niture of Argels ; and in his Rational and IirinTiOrtal So '1, the Likenefsof the Taviniry. {dj Seraphic Beings — Sea EmbJ. IV. Nor. (g). Emblem ( 71 ) £, M B L E U r/je P R E C A U T I O N. E E, my Soul ! the Snare is fpread ; Nature mourns, by Senfe betray'd : Lovely Forms to Joys invite. Soft Ideas, gay Delight. See beneath yon faithlels Shade The artful Foe fapinely lay'd : The fatal Flow'ry Scene beware, Tears lurk beneath, and black Defpair : Follow thy faithful Guardian's Voice, He Calls thee to fablimer Joys, E 4 Sacred ( ^^ ) Sacred Bllfs of Souls Above, Scenes of Glory, Peace and Love ; Points out the bright Seraphic Way, Leading to thofe Realms of Day, Where verdant Palms, and radiant Crowns. And every Happinefs abounds. Here -are Sorrows, Sighs and Tears -, There are Triumphs void of Cares ; Blifbful Crowds, eternal Choirs, Sacred Sounds the Soul infpire. Here the fleeting Pang no more Charms the Heart, when Senfe is o'er : There the purer Ad refin'd Dwells immortal on the Mind ; No more we weep, no more fliall Nature mourn^ But endlefs Scenes of Blifs in endlcfs Tracks return. tc^<^ Emblem ( 73) Emblem XXV. Apostate REASON, HEN, captive to Defire, the Human Soul Laments ker Ruin in her Nature's Fall, Jleafon to conquer ftrives a while, in vain, And faintly pants for Innocence again ; Blinded by Paffion, impotently moves. And, aw'd by Nature, Nature's Choice approves ; Chain'd dov^^n to fenfual Objeds, Senfe adores. Nor thinks of Future Worlds of Glory more. Th'Apoflate (a) Privilege, from whence our Race Prew its firfl native Claim to Happinefs, Was (74) . Was firft diftinguifli'd by the Name of Man, J In that Great Day our ElTence firil began ; " Rebel to what our Maker then defign'd. No more the faithful Guardian of the Mind ; Lords it o'er Virtue, {6) abjed Faith defies. And falls to Pride a welcome Sacrifice : To Folly's glitt'ring Tow'rs goes gayly on ; Is great, admir'd, and pompouily undone ; Unconfcious that Beneath dwells deep Remorfe, The latent Poifon, and the fatal Curfe, The bitter Paradife of haughty Fools, Pregnant with Groans of late repenting Souls. In vain fhe fees the tempting Spirit fmile O'er her loft State, before the glittering Pile -, The wretched Being courts the gilded Bait, And, wrapt in guilty Joys, goes carelefs to her Fate. NOTES to Emblem XXV. (a) y^pofratf Privilege — Reafon, the great peculiar Privilege of our Nature, whereby to fearch after and knouv our Almighfy Creator, that wc may adore and love him i here term'd yfpofiafe, for ceafing to Contemplate the Divine Being, its proper ObjecfT, and fuff'ring itfelt to be diredled by fenfual Paflions to feniual Objefls. This Hermes makes the effential Idea of Man's firft Difobedience, in Pa;m. {b) j^bjeH Faith — Not with regard to its own Nature, which is moft excellent and divine, but with regard to the Contempt it now meets with Irom too many in the World, who are fo bold as to affert the Competence ot Natural Reafon to account for Divine Myfteries, and carry us to Pcrfef^ion without the Help of Revelation. £mBLI(4 ( 75 ) Emblem XXVI. P L U T U S ; or ^ "The Devout Hypocrite. r^HREMES, of humble, honeft Race, Whofe Poverty was no Difgrace, Pray'd to the Gods, and wept and pray'd. At ev'ry Shrine Devotion pay'd : No (a) Hecatombs indeed he drove, Crown'd Vidlims to (b) Olympic Jove ; No Incenfe, nor Arabian Bahiis, Cou'd offer to the Gods in Ahns; His Poverty deny'd fuch Fare, But All was humble and fincere. He ( 7f) He pray'd, as confcious Reafoii knew Dependant Beings ought to do ; Knowledge and Faith to Nature fhew'd The Offering due to Nature's God ; A Soul obedient. Heart fincere, A Confcience as the Sun-Beams clear, Mercy, and Truth, and humble Pray'r : But flill he elos'd his Suit to be Deliver'd from his Poverty. The Gods, flill deaf to this Petition, Refus'd to mend his old Condition, But gave liim Friends, and Peace of Mind, A Heart in all Things elfe refign'd. Virtue to guard his Soul they fent ; But Chremes flill was not content j A little Grange to call his own, A fmall Eftate remote from Town, A plenteous Board to treat hk Friend^ And other Items, without End, Chremes implor'd the Gods to fend : Authors, I ov/n, are not yet iix'd Whether he aik'd a Coach and Six, A iplendid Train, and all the refl Effentiiil to a Man of Tafte -, But fomething of that Stamp, I find. The (c) Comic Poet feems inclin'd To think he liinted at, at lead, Whentothe (d) Z)6'//>/)/VPowV heutter'dthisRcqueil: Hail! Sdcrcd ObjeB of our Vows^ Whfe Hmid till Nature's Wealth bejlows^ (77) 5jv, if my former Zeal difpkafe^ Shall Prafr be diimb^ and Virtue ceafe ? Shall Vice and Folly fiare my Breaji ? Religion be my ftanding feji ? Shall /, in fljort^ by turning vicious^ Be rich and great ^ and live delicious ? Say J for 7?iy Soul deCires to know Whence all Dame Fortune's Favours flow ? The God in Anger thus reply M, Be gone ; thou impious Fooly he cry'd, Have I ?20t All on thee befo'wd^ Conducive to thy real Good ? With Heav'n'^s rich Stores enrich"* d thy Mind^ And only kept thefe Gifts behind ^ Left^ by their fatal Charms betray''d, 7hy Peace their ViBim fdould be made? But fince no other Boon can pleaje^ No Blfji?igfill thy Soul, but thefe. No longer at f?iy Altars ijcait. But, ivr etched Man ! purfue thy Fate : Without my Te?nple Gates you'll fee A Form as blind andfalfe as thee^ Followed by Crowds of ev^ry Sort, From Country, City, Camp, and Court ^ Watching his Smiles; befureyoufeizehim^ And do "what e'*er you can to pleafe him : Frete?id (but o?dy fo) to be To Heav''n a conjiant Vocary ; Hate Virtue, a?id opprefs the Poor, Arid drive the Orphan from your Door -, ^uni ( 7S ) Turn yuflice i?tto Ridicule ; In Faith let Tteafon be your Rule, Nature your Guide in Points Religious ', Flatter andjaivn, and be litigious : Tou need not fear ^ but in the End (e) Plutus will be your faithful Friend. Chremes obey'd the angry Pow'r, And found old Plutus at the Door ; Told him the Meffage from the God, And took him to his own Abode ; In a few Years his humble Hutt In Marble Geers began to ftmt ; Porches and Columns grac'd the Street, W ithin refplendent Halls you meet ; Here Architrave, and Freeze, and Cornilli, There rich Stuckoes new Wonder furnilh ; Here Kjieller fhines, and there Van Dyke : (Did ever Mortal fee the like ?) He that of late was poor as fob. Now flaunts if in embroider'd Robe -, As if, forbid it, Heav'n, to Men ! The SOUTH-SEA YEAR v/as come ag'en. But yet ail tins would not content liim, Thefe Gifts were Things at random fcnt him 3 His Merits ftill were unrewarded, Which the blind Dcemon ne'er rep-ardcd ; o He therefore in a Paffipn tries By Chymic Art to cure his Eyes ; T— /"?/', and Gr—t^ and R—d he calls. To tamper with his optic Balls ; The (79) The fam'd (f) /Egyptian Balm he got. But ftill he couMn't fee one Jot ; 'Till Chremes once being gone from home. Virtue incog, vouchfaf 'd to come, InvokM the All-creating Name, And touched 'em with Empyrean Flame, Plutus no fooner felt the Charm, But his paft Errors he reform'd ; Blindly no more his Gifts beflow'd. But fav'd 'em for the Juft and Good; Chremes* detefled Roof forfook, And thus the late-repenting Wretch be/poke % Farewell J thoii^ ivhoje impatient Br e aft Unhappy^ while of HcaiPn poJfef5*d^ Barter"* d eternal Joys for ;;?f. The End of all thy Glories fee-. While blind, IJirew'*d my Gifts around^ Thou wer'*t among my Minions found -^ The Good neglecied, mourned to fee My Bounties reft onfiich as thee '^ Henceforth to Virtue only kind^ I* II place my Treafures in the Mijid ; The Juft and Good ft:all Suitors be Alike to Virtue^ Heav'*n, and me -, Knaves, Fools and Hypocrites Fll hence defpife^ And only place my Favours on the Wife. Qui capit, ille £;cit. NOTES to Emblem XXVI. {a) Hfcatomh — That is, loc Oxen, or Bulls, vih\ch the Heathen Uf'd ro iacrifice on great and remarkable OccaUons to Jufiter^ and fometimes to yi^QllOj whence the Hecatonbtea^ and the Month Hecatomhxon^ ( 8g ) UecatombaoHy wherein fuch Rites were particularly celebrated, took their Names j J^wo alio had a Hecatomh of white Bulls ofFer'd to her in the great Feaft call'd Heraia, or Junonia^ at Argos^ inliituted by Lynceus^ Son oi Ofiris and Hyperm»e/}ra, the Daughter of Danaus^ whom they facceeded in theCrown of .^rgos, who having con fecraced his Shield, with which he fought for that Crown, in the Temple of yuno ihcxQy Zv«Ci?;/J took it down, and gave It his Sob ^^aj, infti- tuting Games in her Honour for the Youth of Greece, giving the Viftor a Shield and Myrtle Crown. It was at one of thefeFe^fts Herodotus lays the Scene of the famous Story of Cleobis and Biton^ which is the Subjecfi of an Emblem in this Volume, under the Name of FATAL PIETY. Homer makes ^ejlor offer 99 Oxen to Heptane^ couching a Myllery in the uneven Number, to which Polterity might add one, to make the Hecatomh. {b) Olympc Jove -^ AT idzoi ih^CceleJiial yupiter^ diftinguifh- ing him from others of that Name, by way of Eminence, as intending the Supreme Being, who was Olos Lampros, lays Plut. on Horner^ all fliining with Light, and whofe Seat was in the Meav'ns, as Phidias feem'd to infer, when he made hi. Ivory Statue in the Temple of Elis ib large, that, tho' fitting, the Head reach'd the Top of the Dome, (for which being blam'd, as dilproportionate, he laid he made it after the Pattern of Homer, who defcribing this Olympian or Saturnian Jupiter, reprefents him as the Eternal King, Irom whofe Head flow'd ^mbrofial Locks, and who wich his Nod fliook the high Olympus. This Temple, fays Straho, was once famous for its Oracle, but after- wards more fo for the Olympic Games held every 5th Year in a Plain tiard by it, upon the Eltablilhment of Iphitus, J. M. 3174. (c) Comic Poet -^ Jriliophane:, from whole Comedy call'd Plutus, the Plan of this Tale is taken. {d) Delphic Go^ — kt Delphos was an Oraculir Hole, fay Plu- tarch and Lucar2, in the Earth, from whence ilfLied a fragrant Vapour, which, by the AlTiltance of the G?«/.vi of the Place, as fome imagin'd, fiird thole who receiv'd it with a Divine Fury and Prophetic Traniport ; Od/W calls it the Cajlaiian Cave: The firlt who felt its Ertefts is by Ibme held be one Coratas^ a Shepberd, by Accident j but Plutarch Icems rather to aicribe it to a peculiar Appointment of an Over ruling Providence: TiSewzj feefr.s to have been the original Prieftefs, or, at leaft, Pa-ronefs, of this Oracle, too' the DamomAcm Plut. lavs, fhe he'd ironlv during the nine Years Purgation of Apollo, or Phahi:, after he had {lain Python, rhc Genius, or Dicmon, of the Place. The Name Pj?fc3« may be deriv'd \x<)-:n Punthanop:c.i, In^dro; unlets you like the Story Hejiod tells us oetter. That the Stone which Saturn devour'd, iulUad of Jupiter, was call'd Pytho, and, afrer bcitig difgorg'dbyhim, wasphc'd by Ji^piterun^tx iht Brow of Parnajfus, and' gave the ©riginal ^'ame, Python, to the City Delphos : But the firll C)racuiar Virtue is by Orpheus afcrib'd to Themis ; and Oviri makes itcoaeval with the Renewal of Mankind, the Name Ti6e;m, or Fas, implying no more than that Leave was given, or it was then be- come la*lul, to Men to enquire and know the V^Tili of the Gods. Her. fays, the Chorus in Iplugenia of Euripides, Wpollo drove from the Oracle j and the Scholijift upon Pi»dar, ai alio Polybiui in Strabo, la/. ( 8i ) ^y, tnat Python reigning or prefiding there, Dlonyjiw:^ tliaf it,'' Bacchus, gave Anfwcrs firlt i but Py/Ao;? being flain, Apollo (c'lz'd the "tripod, and inftituted the Pythian Games^ in Memory of his Vidory, the firfi: that gave Anfwers in his Name being Phsmottoe to yJcrifius, 27 Years before Orpheus and Mufceus, and Linus, the Tutor of Hercules, fays Clement, which Apollo and Dionyjius above-men- tion 'd were both one, to whorp, under the double Name of Phabus AndBromius, Pnrnajfus is dedicated, fays Lucan, thar is to fay, Ojiris, which (ignifies the iSw^, or Phccbus, who vm&MoczW A. Bacchus, thac is, Great, by th& yirabians, hys Sir Ifaac Ne'wton, indby thQ Greeks, Diony fius -. He in his great nine ^'ears Expedition, which ended irt Greece, among other Places, feiz'd Delphos, and appropriated the Oracleand Mountain where it ftood to bimfelf, con^'itming Phamo^ioe Prieftefs, or Pythia, there. As for Pindar's Story of the tA'O Eagles meering at Delphos, when Jet fly by Jupiter, one from the Eajl, and the other from the IVefi, ac in the Middle of the Earth, which occa- fion'd yupiter to fix an Oracle there, it is ridiculed by Strabo, and all the wiler Heathen. (e) Plutus — Fabl'd to be the God of Riches, and Brother of Bf all viable and mareual Forms, tho' himfelf but one pure, invifiblear.d immateral Form j fur in God there is but •ne Idea, &c. as in Emb. III. Not. (g). {b) Organic Nature— '%o term'd hy^ri/lotlc in his Book de Jnimaj th.t is, endu'd with material Organs lor receiving Ideas from lenlaal and externnl Objefls, and conveying them to the Soul and Rational Power, which he terms the Perfetftion of the Organic Body, and thaC thfi Organ or Instrument of the Soul. F a EwBtEM ( 84 ) Emblem XXVIII. CONSCIENCE. CONSCIENCE! how awful is thy Name to Man ! How Nature trembles when flie hears thy Voice! Tell me, O tell me, when you firft began, And what flrange Terror in thy Anger lyes. Do'ft thou not fl:iine in yonder's open Heart, The Lamp of Reafon, by whofe facred Ray From Heav'n's (a) Eternal Law we learn the Art To own Almighty Wifdom, and obey ? Sun of our [i?) Little World ! by thy pure Beams Viitue's fair Fruit is rip'n'd by Degrees ; Warm'd ( 85 ) Warm'd by \k)!Emppyan {c) Spirit's genial Flames, Nature in thee her firft Perfedlion fees. O thou, who with our Form coasval rofe. The facred Sanation of our firlt Free State : In thee himfelf the Great Creator fhews. And opens all the Wonders of our Fate. If then we find thy Beauties clouded o*er With ruffling Storms, from Guilt thofe Storms arife. Which bath'd in Tears, thy Anger wounds no more. Peace breaks around us, and the Tempefl dies : But wanting thee, we languifh in Defpair, In vain the Pride of trifling Nature boafl {d) Cameleon like, we feed on tainted Air, Flatter'd by Self-Opinion, 'till we're lofi: ; In vain Heav'n's awful Voice wou'd roufe the Soul, And 'waken Reafon to behold her State ; Tho' Thunders fhook the World from Pole to Pole, She cannot tremble, d:io' fhe fees her Fate. NOTES on Em el em XXVIII. (a) Eternal La'iV — 9,0 j^qtiinas teaches, that the Law of Nature (by -vhich are to be underltood the No ices of Confcience concerning our Obligations to Obedience, from the Diilates of Natuie, as Crea- tures to our Creator) is only the Participation of the Eren.al Law in the Raioiial Crea'urei dilpen>'d ro Mankind, fay the 5'/o//ri, under the Name of Reafon, implanted by Nature in ev'ry Man, to guide hirr. in conforming his Life to the Will of him who governs All. {b) Sun of our little World— 'k-i Man, Uy^EuryphamuSy is of ihe Great or Univerfal World. See aif) Emb. XXIII. Nor. (c). (c) EmoyicAu Spirit — So term'd by Hermes in Pa-m. Spiritus DiviKJtatis, Igfiis, ipfe Dras, &c. Empyre.m fisnifv ng Fierv^ and gcner^dlyapply'd to tf e higheft Hc^v'n, or Mu^idus Jpfaritioms,^ 'hs u4zil')th of the Rahhifiic Syilem where rhey place the Divine Scephirothy or Perfeblas Luces^ ilTuing eternally from the Inf n t« Alnnighty Prefence, {d) Cflm(f/eo;2-- A Creature like a Lizard, who being of a verv pale Brown, and extreamly flick, rcfledis the Colour of any Thing it ftands on, as its own : Fancy'd by fome to live upon Air, becajfe ir is always putting out its Tongue to carch Flies, *hich are Us prrtcipal ■f 004 F 5 EMiiLtNl Emblem PROVIDENCE. WHAT dazzling Light is yon? Methinksthe Sun Breaks glorious from the Eafiem Hills this Morn ; Or is it more ? Is that Great Day begun When Nature fliall to endlefs Life be born? Is it the dawning Luftre of thofe Beams, Which, when Messiah, like the Morning- Star, Shall gi\d Seraphic Worlds with radiant Streams Of rich redeeming Fires, fhall fill the Air? 'TisHeav'n's Eternal Eye: Behold, its Ray Chears all created Forms 5 the immenfe Space Boundmg ( 87 ) Bounding material Worlds, imbibes the Day, And all the Pow'rs of Heav'n their Firfl Great Caufe confels : Time's rolling Periods all unfolded lye ; To him Eternal Worlds return again j Before him Ages after Ages fly, And one Eternal Now furrounds the Scene. Such is thy Prsfcience, fuch, O Thou Immenfc Almighty Being ! We, in Terms conlin'd. Proclaim the Glories of thy Providence, Stupendous Ad: of the Eternal Mind ! Thence Empires ceafe to be -, thence States arife ; By that the Vintage thrives, the Harvells bloom ; The Vid:ors triumph, and the Captive dies, And wealthy Stores are brought by Conquefl: home. When Youth and Nature charm to wanton Joys, And tempting Spirits fan the glowing Fire, Thy Providence fomx Angel flill employs To check the raging Tempeil of Deiire ; Thence Nature is at refl j each latent Caule Of Wonder rifes from the great Decree ; Harmonious Order unmoleiled flows Thro' univerfal Worlds, O Thou Firfl Source, from Thee. F 4 Emblem '(88 ) Emblem XXX. T^e P H iE N O M E N O N. ON E Ev'ning from the Town withdrawn. While walking in the verdant Lawn, I fell by Chance among a Crowd Of DonF dogmatically loud ; Hard Words and Scraps of Greek flew round, . As might ev'n (a) Lu/Ifs Self confound -, Seme urg'd it was a Bl^.zing Star, Prediaing dire impending War; Some faid a Meteor, fomeaForm Compell'd by (^) Necromantic Charm, In (89) In Air embody*d, to portend The Time will come the World mull end : 'Till a bold {c) Stagirite declar'd, No Daemon cou'd inhabit there. A while I lift'n'd to their Chat About this wond'rous Work of Fate ^ But not conceiving what it was Of their Debate might be the Caufe, I afk'd the Gravefl: of the Train Their myllic Meeting to explain : Sir, quoth the Don, and fix'd his Eyes, With Looks of Terror, on the Sides, Moil aflrologically wife. Such flrange (d) Phsenomena of late The Clofe of thefe lafi Ages "wait. As if the {e) great re-vohijig Tear W^ound lip the Periods of the Sphere : See J Sir J what dreadful Form fies yonder. The ijery (f) ^inte fence of Wonder In the fir fi Region of the Air, fiijl (g) culminated I})' the (/?) Bear. I look'd with all the Eves I had. And thought the (/) Roficrucian mad ; 'Till an huge Telefcope was brought, Fam'd for the Wonders it had wroup^ht. Its new DIfcoveries of Stars, Of [k) Solar Realms and Lunar Wars -, This, elevated, by Delign, Juft to the Town's Meridian Line, Shew'd me a Monfler flrange and odd. As fome {/) Mgjptian Demi-God -, A Human (90) A Human Tongue in Front appeared, A Wafp and Serpent clos'd the Rear j Two Wings of Bats, which (hun the Day, Bore up the Whole, in fearch of Prey : Quickly I knew the Form to be Of no Cceleflial Progeny, For oft' as I had tramp'd the Town, I'd feen it ftalk its fatal Round ; Sometimes in Gold and Scarlet gay 'Twou'd haunt AlTemblies, Park and Play j Sometimes affociate with the Fair, And lurk beneath a Solitair ; Sometimes all brilliant fhine at C — rt, 'Midft glittering Crowds i?tcog. refort ; In the foft Whilper fwifdy pafs. And fmile in ev'ry lovely Face ; Sometimes affed: a lerious Strain, Be fometimes noify, loud and vain j Sometimes affed: a fmart Tupee, Be eafy, awkard, ftiff, and free ; Difguis'd in ev'17 modern Form, Afliimes a fatal Pow'r to charm -, Not Beauty, Learning, Wit, nor Love, Widi half its Eloquence can move. Scarce had I thus harangu'd the Tribe, And the portentous Prodigy defcrib'd. When Cofmo, wifer than the reft, LaughM, and cry'd out, 'twas all a Jell 3 WeVe all this Matter falfely handl'd. The Phantom we behold is SCANDAL 5 'Tis ftrange we blindly fliou'dn't know her. Whom ev'ry Day ourfelves adore. RE. (91 ) REFLECTION. ScandaPs a univerfal Crime, Haunts ev'ry Age and ev'iy Clime 5 To ev'ry Nation's Lot will fall, Alike vernacular to All : Whence Man iirft learn'd this fatal Art, The Idol now of ev'ry Heart, Is hard as (m) Algebra to tell. But moft agree it came from Hell, Since, from his Excellence at Railing, (However now that Sin's prevailing) Old (n) Satan fir ft deriv'd his Name, Brand both of Punifliment and Shame i He with the fatal Apple gave The Epidemic Hint to Eve j She added Charms and Wit to pleafe. With all the fof ter Niceties ; Ada?n gave Weight and Eloquence, But none I ever heard gave Senfe : From this Original it flew. Like Pride and Love, the World quite thro'. Man's Native Innocence betray'd, Firft (0) cenfur'd Heav'n, then difobey'd. And univerfal Havock made. NOTES to Emblem XXX. {a) Luily "^The Inventor of an obfcure, myfteriois Arf, wherein he has confounded Divinity, Philofophy, and Cabaliftic Numbers in fuch a Ckaos of Ideas, as himfeif only is able to underfiand and ex- pound i this he pretends he bad by Revelation in a Vifion duripgj his Retirement in a Defarr, but he is look.'d upon as a meer EnthufiaJ}. ^b) Necromantief (90 {^) Necromantic C/vrrm — Necromancy was that Species of Magic wJiich diviii'd by re : lling Life 'nto dead Bodies, as En'&ho, the j¥!morjia» Witch, conf .Jted by Sextus in L'tcan^ is fabl'd to do. Such Force is afcrib'd both by Greek and Latin Poets to the Charms of Hecate; and I'uch was the Spell o( the Wirch at Endor^ who raised iht Spirit A Samuel^ or fome Being aflTuming bis Form, to Saul. Cafaubon, in his Deeh A(ftions with Spirits, mencions the Imputatioa ©i fuch a Fa£l to Kelly, Dee's Copartner in his dark Stud es, and ano- ther recied by Bifhop y^f.'dreTrs. But now the Term Necromancy is indifcriminately apply'd to all Kinds of Magic and Commerce with the evil Parfof the iavifible World. (c) iS'/d^/mf— Means here a Follo'A-er of Arijlotle, who was born SitSteigira, and tho' he don't ablblutely deny the Exigence oi Drvine Subftance;, as he terms 'em, yet, in Oppofition to his Jv'.after Plato, he is as fileHt about rhem as polTibJe, faying, IVe In'Jiv but little of 'em, lecaufe but little of 'em is obvious to Senfe ; which fome ©i his Followers have fince improv'd to an ablblute Denial of 'em. {d) Pbanomena'^Thzth, Appearance;, a Term generally spply'd to ftrange and praeternacural Figure-, in and Difpofitions of the Air and Hcav'nly Bodies, Mereors, Comets, Flying Dragons, Human Forms, and the like. (if) Great revolving 2^jr — So call'd from Its con'aining in itfelf all the Revolutions ol the HeaverJy Bodies, which within the Com- pafs o{ its Period are fuppos'd to return to fhe fame con^mon univerfal Thotb from whence they firft fer our in the Morning ot Nature, fo bringing the whole Creation, like a well-adapted Concerr, to a beau- teous Clofe. This fhe Ancients 'erm'd the Revolution of the 8fh or Starry Sphere J hu: Copernicus Frutenus, fulting it to \:he Pbilolaiaft JivCothefis, which he reviv'd, calls ic the Przceflion of tie Equinoxes, afcribing the Motion, not ro that Sphere, but to the Colures under it, uhofe Sections, with the Z^^/.Tf, form the Equinoflial and Soiititi J Points, to which he allo^-s one Degree in about 72 Years, which takes in pretty near 25,800 Vea'-s for the whole Revolution j tho* Ptolemy gives it 36,000, and Mfhonfo 49,000 ; but Jlfhonfo evi- dently miftakes the Difference berween tiie true Tropical Year and common Year of C-.^mputation for the Equinoflial Prseceffion, and has ftated his Period accordingly: The Ancients from Plato allow'd but ■ 1000 Ye rs for this Revolution, but I much quelHon whether they ireant the fame Thing with u% for what we intend by it is wholly attach'd to the prelent Order of Na'ure ; but by their making it fuc- ce;nve ro the iafl or Iron Age, and deTcribing it as a State, to ufe /y^o^z7 mifapplies, from her, to the Son of Pollio. (/) Sluinteffence -—W zz a Ternn invented by Ari^othy to defcribc the 6ubltance or Matter whereof the Heavens were compos'd, more fine and pure than any of the four Elemenrs, and therefore call'd a ^ifjt, or fifth Elfence oiSubflance j whence it ha? fince been ;ipplv'«I to fignify any Thing out of the common Road of Purity and Per- fedlion, in a farcaft c Way. (g) Culminated— An Afirological Term, denoting the vertical Pofirion of one H^av'nly Body juft over ano:her, or in the Zenith of a Horofcope. {h) Bear-" A Conftellation near the North Pole, otherwife term'd Charles's-lVair2^ into which Ovid iMcsCa/i/Io, Daughter of Lycaon^ to be turn'd, and her Son -<^rr(75 \nto Bo'^tes^ ox Ar&ophilax ^ the' others apply that to the yuunger Son of Ceres by Jafius. There is alfo anorher Bear^ call'd the Lefs^ or Cynofura^ whofe laft Star is very nigh the Pole, Pojiellas fays but two Degrees from it, others io'jr ,• this is call'd the Mariners or Phcsnician Star, that People ufin** it for their Director in Sailing before the J\Iagnet was known. {i) Ro/i^rucian— From Rq/icrofs, Count deGahalis, the Founder of a dark, myiterious Cabala, concerning the Ivliniftratlon of certain Genii about Mankind, whom he terms Sylphs, Salamanders^ NymphSy and Gnomes, the Initiated into which Myiteries he calh Adepts, or Perfons who had acquir'd a Perleclion ot Knowledge and Wildom^ rot that he was alone in thefe Notions, for the fame are to be found among the Dreams of Artkemius, Tritkemitis, Agrifpa, Agricolct^ Paracelfus, Suavius, and many moFe, under the I'plendid Titles of Cahala magna, P kihfophia magna, Philofophia occulta magia, &c. {i) Solar Reahns — See Biliiop Wilkin's Hiflory of the World if: the Sun and M'jon •, the former thereof contains many Thin^rs of the lame Stamp with the claberate Lucubrations of the late iamouj Ivlr. Gulliver. (/) Egyptian Demigod— • Demigods v/erc properly thofe who, hav- ing been Great Men, were Apotheis'd ac their Deaths, as Tidlf irentions of Hercules ,• fuch alfo were the Anubis, or Cynocephalus^ tht 0/iris, A'.is, Mnevis, znd Amw^n, of the Egyptian Wiuthulo-jy^ whom they reprefented as MonTtcrs with Heads, one of a Dog, rhe fecond of a Kawk, the third ot an Ox, the fourth of a Calf, and rhe Jalt of a Ram, c.iU'd by Lucan, Sernideos Canes i tho' the ancie-ic Narre for 'em was Semones, quaft Semibomines, a Term receiv'd ironj the Hetrurian Theology i the Greeks intended the faree by :1 tir J-feroes 2nd II?7nitbeoi, thatii, Deify 'd Men, or virtuous Souli con^ verlant on E«rth, as both li^/iaJ iud Pluto thouch:. {m) Algehfji (94) (m) ^Igehra-^A Species of Arlfhmetlc for the Equation of Num- bers, and finding out unknown Terms by the Ufe of intermediate! Letters i qaW^ Algebra, ot j^lchebra, that is, fublime and copious, for its great Ufe and Excellence in all Mathematical Learning, («) 5a/j« — Signifies Adverfary, or Accufer. (o) Firjt cefifur'd Heav'/i-^Thc Evil Spirit accus'd the Almighty to his new-form*d Crea«^ure of deceiving him, in faying he {hould die the Day he eat of the forbidden Fruic, afluring him he Ihould not, and by that Means drew him to a pofitive Difobedience to his Great Creator, and Affent rather to the Delufions of his Enemy than the Precept anJ Admonition of the moft True God. EMBtEM (95 ) -s^.^r^ Emblem XXXI. rhs PATRIARCH. WHEN, warn'd by Heav'n, the faithful Patriarch fled. To court a Foreign Beauty to his Bed, Thro' Paths unxknown and dreary Wafts he flrayM, Relign'd and brave, to feek the promis'd Maid : The purling Chryftal's Hmpid Siream, at Noon, CooPd his warm Lip ; each Night fome fhady Gloora Of twining Woodbinds, Emblem of true Love, The Pride and Glory of the fragrant Grove, Or fomc fweet flow'ry Bank high curtain'd o'er With lieav'n's deep Azure, fummon'd him to Reil ; Contented (90 Contented and ferene, he alk'd no more. Rich without State, and without Grandeur blefs'd. While thus the wand'ring Charge of Heav'n obey'd. Undoubtful of the End what Heav'n decreed. As peaceful Slumbers footh'd his daily Pains Beneath a spreading Oak in Bethelh Plains, The JEther glows, Angelic Worlds appear. And all the Glories of the dazzling Sphere ; A glitt'ring Scroll of Light unlaps its Fire, Down verging to the Earth, oa which the Choir Of flaming Seraphs trod ; as if the Way 'Twixt Heav'n and Nature in that Sun-beam lay ; Above th' Almighty XI N, with all the Hofl Of Light impervious (here Defcription's lofl) 'Utter'd a Voice like Waters, from whence flow'd The myftic Wonders of a fuff'ring God. The ravifh'd Patriarch tranfported rofe, Believes the Viiion, and returns his Vows j Th'incarnate Deity by Faith he faw, ReverM his Miffion, and obey'd his Lav/. In vain then Atheifis Nature's Pow'r pretend. Their impious Freedom vilely to defend ; Nature avows her GOD, his Law receives ; He toUows Nature neareft that believes : The Promised Seed from Adan?% Fall was giv'n. And Faith the only Means to merit Heav'n. Emblem (97 ) E M B L E M XXXIL rhe WORLD i7t Full Lifs. "^ H I S Empty World fupported fee By Ignorance and Vanity j Above Self'Love preferves his Seat, Reigning in Epidemic State : Corrupted Nature is his Throne, From whence he rules and guides his own : {a) Wijdoni no Bus'nefs there can find ; Banifli'd the Race of Human Kind, His Guardian Genius guides him hetice To Realms of Peace and Innocence. G In ( pS ) In vain the common Herd of I'ools, Whom [b) Fortune in her Apron holds. Obedient to the Lafli of Senfe^ Carp at his Letter'd Excellence : In vain they ilrive to hold the Sage, He hates a fawning, vicious Age j He has no Call to keep him here. Can't laugh to hear the Voice of Pray'r ; Can imitate no reigning Vice, To be thought faihionably wife j Can neither flatter, cringCj^nor court. Nor banter Keav'n itfelf in Sport ; Condemns no Truth, no Crime commends, Confciencc and He are faithful Friends : Then let the furly Creature go, The Wretch has nothing here to do ; Nor Herefy, nor Hakkquln^ Can pleafe him with their naufeous Scene ; The World's gay Idol, Fortune^ he difdains. And greatly feeks thofe Orbs where folid Virtue reigns. NOTES to Emblem XXXII. (a) Wifdom no Bus'/iefs — So Plafo defcribes his PhUofpher In Ph^dro, as fixing his N'li.id wholly upon Divine Ideaj, and actjuring true Perfccli n, by righrly applying them ; fuch, fays he. the ^iddy M-.ih tuoccarp at, as hcfide the Ule of Rcalbn, b-jcaufeabftracfied Irona H'ltTiin, and occupy'd in Divine Studies j hut luch, cofitinuPs he, are full of the Divinity, and pofTefs that which the World cannot undec- ftand, fur it is conceai'd from them. (A) Fortune — Blind Idolatry /iumber'd her among the CbjesOs fif its WorlUp: But wife Nature, unprej'jdic'd by corjupt Superftition, abhorr'd tl'.e Delufion, confelTing, in the Perfon of Pi^;7c?n5«, That fort:u:e IS no God to a wife and a {^ocd Man. So Ari /I of le defines Fo'tune to be only Cavfa -fer accidens eorum aua ddtUu fiunt ; and Cicero fays, Ihe owes both her Name a.. d Beinjj to Human Ignorance, in the true Caufes vf Things. . ^ EN5BI.EM ( 99 ) Emblem XXXIIf. I'he Progress of GOLD. HEN from the Earth's d^ep Womb the Sooty Race Of {a ) ChilH Sons, Nature's unlov'd Difgrace, Have dug the fiiining Ore from the rich Veins Of {b) Andes" burning Hills j or in the Plains {c) Laborious 'midfl the Floods and fwelling Tides Of frilling Rivers from thofe Mountains Sides, Have caught the glitt'ring Dull, the wealthy Mafs Is cleans'd, by purging Fires, fi'om Nature's Drofs : G 2 Thm ( lOO ) Then thro' the World the tempting Mifchief flies s« Thence Spahi derives her Annual rich Supplies, With which her Peace, and Pow'r of France, fhe I: buys ; 'Spite of Valencia!^ terrible Campaign, Infiilts vidorious Britain on the Main : * Thence Gallia ftrives, in fpite of Hochjiefs Plains, With conqner'd Troops, loft Honour to regain ; With Pomp of Piety, Heav'n's Aid implores. And batters down whole Realms with Louis d'Ors, '!f hence the perfuafive Guinea takes its Rife, Bribe of Ambition, Luffc, and Avarice. Imperious Toy ! For thee the Virgin burns. The Merchant trafficks, and the Lover mourns ; For thee the Hero fights, the Lawyer pleads. The Coxcomb drelTes, and the Soldier bleeds : All Things by thee are govern'd here below 3 To thee even Virtue yields, and Scepter'd Monarchs bow. NOTES to E M B L E M XXXin. (.j) Chih'-' A Country of Soufh-America, lying bctvieen Peru ptJ Terra Mcgellainca, on the Coalt of" ihtGxc^i SouthSa, bccaeen that a.nd the ^rtdes^ fruitful in Gold. {h) Andes — A RiJge o{ high Mountains, dividirg ?eru and Part of Chili from Pariagua\\ La Plata, &c f ;me of rhcm Volcands. {c) Laborious 'mi dji 'the Floods — From the Sidi Tyranr, rook, him oH' by PoiPjn, in which and Inchajications i>.e was molt skilful ; far which be.ng drove our, fl^e fltd to Ituly, and fc'tled there on Mount Circaus. upon the Confines of Latium, where The turn'd 5£-_y//j info a Sea Monlter, bore Telego/tus to Ulyjfes, 'and chang'd Picus, Son of Saturn. King of the Latins^ into a Magpye, lor flighting her. See Virg. JEn. 7. Ov. Met\ l. 14. z\A Horn. Odxf. ic. {b) Lamia— Was the Daughter of Bdii:, or rather Neptune, and liha. fays Suidas, ^ho, thro' Grid" for the Lofs of her Son by ( "I ) Jupiter, TR-ent mad, and committed all manner of Crucify unnn »t Children of others. By this Name, in the Pl-jral Number frp ir included the Emfuf^, and Larv^, Species of Female Damom v were thought vuioufly to affeA Human Sociefy; one wherenr r Philojiratus, Jov'd Meniffus at Corinth, 'rill chac'd a^ay WJHf lomus. Dion. Chryf, in his Libyan Hiftory, applies the nL^^ K.nd of Serpents, whofe Upper Parts, Brealts and Faces reZ^^^^ thofcof beautiful Women,- thefe (hiding all r he reft) they evpoT'd '^ Vie*- of Travellers, to excite their Admiration, whom 300//.^ chey devour'd : Which Monfters are by others te'rm'd IJ^JZ Ztj^ to m rhat of 7^remiaf,, ,n Lam. iv. .;. {cm, whereof were JhibkJ Shews fo the Roman People by Probus. exniDited in ic) Cyprisj-Fcnus io call'd by T^^omVrvx, Ep. W. beca„r. n, firft appear'd from the Ocean in the Ifle of Cyprus • As .If e ^^ frocreata, Fonm-born, by Cic. e/e N. D 1 / rh- /*! ^^'^.'V«'»« (^; £f^/^^fl — Daughter of Chryfaor, h.. He/io/ a en. Geryon being Half W'oman Half Setp'ent^ the wl Tf^r '^f °^ but ^follodorus fays fl,e was the Sifter of Ty'fho^ and Da, Y'" ^ Tartarus and 7>rr^. /f'-'^''', and JJaughter of (e)%//j— Daughter of Piorrr/j chano'd ^v r,'.. • Monfter, and afterwards into a Roc^in theV/^L^ '"'° ' ^^^- the Whirlpool C^aryUis, a veryl^'j's fe;ttb:'ber°'" '^ f/) i-y/-^,;, — See before Note (/) Emb xi ^ ^ ''^^^"• r^) //v^^-aj — See Note (/5) above. (/6) i^57?zA-D2mons — Evil Spirits 'aDnMrln* in r- t. r , r- Zf/?, 'w/V/,? />?.? Sacred Fire S'^me ho/fUe Face ilould interrupt the Si^n Spirit, whjch, ra„/f/„J„'JJ/4 -Je Tcla!:ir ""'' '.'^ P^P" Sratusi, Kin„) Piaures Ac „.f' " i ,v? " °' '"'^""■""Mi into Emb L£M < IIZ ) Emblem XXXVIL rhe C A L L. AWAKE, deluded Soul! the Morning. Star Befpeaks the Purple Dawn, and fparkling Dav Shines radiant from the Ea(i : See, all the Air Glows with new Light from Truth's eternal Ray ; Nature no longer mourns beneath the Shade Of Error's fatal Gloom ; no more the Grove, Sacred to Heroes, and the hallow 'd Dead, Awes to Devotion, or invites to Love : In vain (a) Sabisan Balms, in fpiccy Streams, Flov/ from crown'd Altars : Hecatombs in vain Low ( 113 ) Low with Prophetic Voice around the Flames, They cannot cleanfe the confcious Sinner's Stains:; Rife ! Break thy Golden Dream ! Lift up thy Eyes !: . And fee Redernption^ like the Firft Day's Sun, Beam a rich Flood of Joy from op'ning Skies, And chear the World with Love's Seraphic Dawn] Behold the Sacred Symbol of thy Joys ! Angels around in awful Tranfports wait, Confirm the Miffion which the Father's Voice Immortal fpoke, and feal'd the Rolls of Fate, Depths, which from Time's firfl Origin unknown. Wrapt in Eternal Wifdom, lay conceal'd, 'Till {b) Shiloh from Empyrean^ oA^Ss, camedov/n. And all the mighty Prodigy reveai'd 3 Taught guilty Man thofe ^acra firfl to know. Nature and Realon trembl'd to reveal ; Whence Peace and Life and Joys Eternal How, While gnalhing Spirits their lofl Heav'n bewail. NOTES to Emblem XXXVIL (a) Sahaan-—Saka:a is y^rahia Felix, the ancient Sea's of I'hs Homeritei^ or original Ethiopians, who remov'd from thence iora th.u Part of y^fric now call'd JEthio^ia, from which rhey were parrei only by the Red Sea, call'd Sabcea, afo ton Sebein, from the Ver.e- ration of the Gods, as abo'jnding with Myrrh and Frankincenfe for their Altars. Both Sorts of JEtkio^^ians were in Xerxe^'i Army de- fcrib'd by Herodotus. b) Shiloh — According to theTjrgum o{ Onl^ehs, is the fame as MeJJiah, that is, Untliii, or Chrijl; others render h Mijfuin, chat is, Sefjt i but R. Kimchi, Filium Mulieris, H £mbl£M ( 114 ) E M B LEM xxxvm. REDEMPTION, '^ i ^ I S done ! Eternal Periods are unveil'd, Jt Redempfh?fspz{s'd; the great Record is feal'd^ Immortal Being mortal Pangs fullains, The Creature lives in the Q-eator's Pains ; The Source of Nature mourns, the Heav'ns bow down, Messiah bleeds beneath the Thorny Crown : Weep, O ye Angels, veil your piercing Eyes, And tranble, while the Great Redeemer dies ! Can Life then ceale to be: Can Death have PowV O'er the Firfl Caufe ? Can Effence be no more ? Can ( "5 ) Can High Omnipotence a Period know ; Or Streams Eternal ever ceafe to flow ? That Nature may be more, can GOD be lefs ? Tell me, Mtherial Forms ! what Prodigy is this ? Ha ! yonder 1 behold the glorious Scene ; Open, my burning Soul, and let :hc Wonder in! See Heav'n and Nature join'd by myftic Love ^ See the Creator in the Creature move ; See in our Subftance the Incarnate GOD Bows, bleeds and dies beneath the Father's Rod ; For what of Heav'n his Sacred Nature wore. Incapable of Paffion, triumph'd more ; Exempt from all the Godhead ftill remains. And only gave a Sandion to his Pains ; Almighty Jesu, hail ! Reftor'd in Tiiee, Our fallen Nature fufFer'd, and was free j From thy Divinity the Sanation flow'd -, Thou dy'd'ft in Man, that Man might live in GOD^ jj 2 Emblem ( ii6 ) Emblem XXXIX. The Christian CHARACTER. XTATIC Scene ! So wrapt in Glory round. So loft in Tranfport fhoiild the Soul be found Who feeks Immortal Worlds -, Almighty Beams Of Love Self-perfedl in Mtherial Streams From Truth's Eternal Spring dawn round his Breaft, The Force of Reafon in his Faith confefs'd. All there is pure as Nature W2s defignM, When Heav'n-born Linocence adorn'd Mankind, Wlien the Seraphic Light around us flione, And all x!nz \a) Pow'is of Angels were oar own. Tlie ( "7 ) The Chrifiian^ thus from flormy Paffions free. Lives only to adore the Deity ; Each Purple Morn his Heart rich Incenfe pays, Chafte holy Vows, and Hecatombs of Praife j Each Night the Silver Moon beholds his Tears Of weeping Penitence and humble Prayrs ; Obedience crowns the Whole, his Heart no more Ambition warms, or the lewd Thirfl of Pow'r j The Wealth cf Nature he at Diftance views. Dares wifh no Plenty, nor no Want refufe : All that is Heavn's, and as wife Heav'n decrees. Whole Adts are juft, but awful Myfteries j Triumphant hence o'er all Life's tempting Joys, He hears, unmov'd, the warbling [h) Syren's Voice ; In vain foft Pleafure charms, in vain Defire, Love, Beauty, Grandeur, guilty Thoughts infpire ; No Pomp of Nature can his Peace prevent. He lives a Martyr, and he dies a Saint. NOTES on Emblea/[ XXXlXi (a) Foto^rs 'jf y^ngeh — Free Will, and a Natural Capacity of heino Immortal. See F.pi-ph. Uom Proclus con. Origen. aid ^'ug. dt Civ^Dei, Juil^M. Apol.adSe?}. [B) Syrtn's yoice — Metaphorically for the deluding Voice of Nature. The Whole built upon the Plan of Clem. ^kx. his true Gnofnc^ in Strom, @g) Hj Emblsm ( ii8 ) Emblem XL, Primitive DEVOTION. WHEN true Devotion and a pious Zeal To learn the Depths of Heav'n's Almighty Will Infpire the Soul, how readily we hear The Sacred Ledures of the Learned Chair ; The Preacher's Voice, like Hermo?2*s baimy Dews, Melts our ftrong PafTions into Holy Vows ; We pray, we liften, and we learn, with Joy, What Heav'n iirft taught ; and ev'ry Senfe employ In hallow'd Pleafures -, while our glowing Breafl pants ftron^Iy to receive the hallow'd Guefl : Thus ^-""^■^^Tt'^-^^" ■:jjs~rf-^'m»!f inwm i u ri<>i>. ^ i-^ Thus met the Saints of Old, nor thought whole Daysff. Too long to fpend in their Creator's Praife : Then Churches were the Copies of thofe Choirs Where Hcav'nly Vifion Heav'nly Love infpires j Faith's holy Tranfports triumph 'd over Senfe, • And Reafon bow'd to pure Intelligence : k Then GOD was All in All ; to ev'ry Breafl; ^ Th' Immortal Prelence was a v/elcome Guefl j ;; There in his living Temple of the Mind t The radiant (a) Shechmah for everfliinM, ; There Incenfe ever burn'd ; Devotion there - Was the lov»d Viftim, deckt in humble Pray V; Harmonious Piety flill fed the Flame, While ev'ry Soul bcliev'd and hop'd the lame -, Grace fmil'd in All ; All burn'd with equal Love, And with united Zeal foughi^the bright Realms Above^ NOTE o?z Emblem XL. (a) ^hechinah — Was a Term us'd to denote the Divine Prefencc rerraining in the Holy of Holies over the Mercy Seat oi the firlt Temple at Jerufalem j and trom thepce apply'd to denoie any in. mediate Prefence or Irradia'ion of the Divinity ; not that we are ta fuppofe that Place contained the Subltance of the Divine Biinor, but one of the Shephiruth Divine and Perfetlee Luces iffuing irom rhe Infinite Beu,g, as the Rabtinic Syfte^n exprefles it, was at that Time vifibie, or, at leaft, fomehow more immediately difcernable there ac that Time ,• term'd by Mofes the hinder Parts of the Divins Be:n;j. H ^ G.VIBLXM T^^!^ffy*^ Emblem XLI. No Reason above FAITH. ON E Evening, ?-S the pious Aiiftin trod The Sandy Beach, with Thoughts intent on GOD, His lab'f ing Soul myfterious Doubts opprefs'd. And Faith and Reajon ftruggl'd in his Breaft; Frail Nature ftrove, (but Nature ftrives in vain To know what Heav'n has ne'er revealed to Men) By what Eternal Law of Entity The One Immortal ElTence can be Three j How Unity can ftream a triple Ray, And Faith to Reafon juft Obedience pay. As ( izi ) As mufing thus on Sacred Truths he pafs'd. On a laborious Youth his Eyes he caft j With painful Toil he try'd, but tryM in vain. To make a fhallow Sandy Bed contain The foaming Billows of die boundlefs Main. Forbear, miftaken Boy, the Father cryM, Tour fruit lefs Tajk by Nature^s Laiv^s deny*d. Why then (And fuddenly an Angel's Face . Shone with Seraphic Light around the Place) Reply'd the glitt'ring Form, ^o^ thou by Senfe Prefume to Jean Supreme hit elli gene e^ ney who for Saered Truths wou'*d Reafons k?iow Why Things Eternal are for everfo. Who the Firft I?nme?ife Origin eonjine Tofcanty himits of the Human Mind^ Tkfcribe a [b) Series of revolving Tears In vaji Eternity ; may count the Stars, Lade Oceans dry^ and empt the deep Abyfs^ TJiiravel Nature"* s darkefi Myjieries, Fathom by Reafon all the vajl Defign OJ future Worlds in the Almighty Miftd-, Boafting the Strength of Reafon, they dejiroy That Reafon the^fo impioufy employ 3 Fut out the Light of Nature in the Soul, And tempt Heav'*n*s Vengeance by afecond Fall, This fpoke, he vanifli'd in a Purple Cloud, The Father w^ept, and ftrid Obedience vow'd To Heav'n's Almighty Truth, by Heav'n declar'd. And fpent his future Days in Penitence and Pray'r. ' NOTES ( laa ) NOTES o;j Emblem XLI. This Sr»ry is generally imputed to St. Auftin^ but by the Com- fnentator upon Planus brought down fo lo*' as his Time, tho' I think Urirhout Foundation, becaufe in the la^er Ages of the Church^ fuch Divine Evidences of Holy Truth were not fo frequent as when the Corruptions of her Doftrlne were lefs general, and the Zeal of the Orthodox was more ftrong and lively. Nor is this the only miraculous Confirmation of the Doflrine of the Blefled and Undivided Trinity her Annals afford us,* the Judgment of God appearing in the Death of y^rius himfelf , and Annjiafiui^ a Patron of his deteftable Dodtrines j and the withdrawing the Water by a Divine Hand on fome Arian Baptifms, more than once, being fufficient to c mvinee us, that God has not always heard thofe Blafpheiwies, wirhuut vindicating his Truth J and, as it were, protefting, in the Voice of Thunder, againft Human Impiety. (k\ Series of revolving Tear j — Alluding to the Do(fl-rine of JEviternifj^ or Succeffion of Time in the Duration of Eternity, which, by applying to the Exiltence of the Divine Nafure, the jSriam make ufe of, to found a Beginning for the Sun's Exigence, frior to Created Forms, but yet fubfequent to the Father ,■ which by retaining the true Doiflrine of Eternity, as an Eternal NOW, they cou'd never have done, without involving their Scheme in a moll; ridiculous Self-Contradi(ftion. Emblxm ( 1^3 ) Emblem XLII. Destruction of JERUSALEM. w HEN a fairn Empire tow'rds its Period draws, Vindidive Juftice waits the mighty Clofe ; Earth, Air and Heav'n in hallow'd Wonders join. And Nature bows beneath the great Defign. So Jiidah fell ; but e'er the laft long Woe Seal'd her fad Fate, the threatning Storm flie faw Come rolling on, portentous Fires appear. And radiant Hofts embattel'd in the Air ; {a) Meteors and Comets o'er the Temple hung ; Voices unknown the Fall of Bakm fung ; A thoufand ( iH ) A thoufand burning Forms the /Ether knew. Laden with Plagues the ftreaming Vapours flew ; Omens on Omens, Fears on Fears arole. To warn th'obdurate Tribes of their impending Woes; Factions in Faith the impious Land divide. The Holy Fire was grudgingly fupply'd j Rebellion then was Zeal, whilft impious Swarais Reafon'd on Sacred Truths by Force of Arms ; No more in Peace th'attoning Vidim dies. The Priells and People were the Sacrifice. Thefe, ^alem, were thy Crimes, the Guilt of Blood, Too haughty Nature, and Contempt of GOD, Impenitence and Pride : For thefe the Plain Of (h) Admah perifli'd in the burning Rain. Thy Fall all Nature mourn'd ; Heav'n, Earth and Air Foretold thy Fate, and made thy Peace their Care. So Heav'n, indulgent to the Sinner's Cries, Firfl lets fome dawning Hopes of Mercy rife ; Points at Repentance in fome threatning Form, That, weeping, we may 'fcape th'impending Storm ; But if the diftant Thunder is defpis'd. Vengeance purfues, and the bold Rebel dies. NOTES on Emblem XLII. {a) See Jofephus. \h) Mmah-'OuQ of the five Cities of the Plain of Decapoh's, teilroy'd by Fire Irom Heav'n. Em'blim ( 1^5 ) Jl. M B L E M XLIIL Fatal PIETY, THE Morning rofe, and bright ^^/ror^ pky'd . Her Purple Fires, in Oriejit Beams array'd. On Argos' ancient Tow'rs : Argos, the Seats Of [a) Coptic Tribes, now fees her fnining Streets All ftro^v'd with fragrant FlowYs, while the IhriU Voice Of {b) Choirs Olympic pierce the radiant Skies With Great (c) Frojymnici^ Praife ; Here id) Mitr'd Trains Of {e) Purple VepU cry, Pr ofymnia reigns j A licre ( 1^6 ) There (f) Timbrels (Id's Joy) foft Murmurs found. Here (g) Snowy Hecatombs, witli Garlands crown'd. Follow the facred Pomp ; there {h) Cornets play ; The Youthful Band (/) devoted to the Day, Glitt'ring in Arms, fucceeds, and flowing Crefts, Eager to ftrive, and burning for the Lifts : Before the Troop an Aged Augur bore (Clad in a (k) Linen Veft, all fpangl'd o*er With Gold) the Sacred (I) Shield, of mighty Size, And [m) Myrtle Wreath, the happy Vigor's Prize : Such (?z) Da?2aus firft from Warlike Mgypt brought. Such bore, when for the Argive Crown he fought j And, grateful to the Gods, with votive Pray'r Oifer'd at yz^«(?'s Shrine, to make that Crown her Care: (o) Lyncczis from thence the hallow'd Cuftom drew. Each Year with martial Games that Off 'ring to renews Argos each Year the Grcecian Youth invites. The Heroes meet and" celebrate the Rites. All now was ready, and the joyful Train March'd awful to (p) Anthea's ancient Fane 3 (q) Argiva m her Iv'ry Chariot (hone Li Gold and Purple, like the Rifing Sun : When, lo ! the ficred Bulls the Yoke difdain. Break thro' th'affiighted Crowd, and bellow in th^ Plain J Plung'd headlong in the Stream, they tempt the Flood, And fmk rafn Vidims to the (?') Azure God. Now Sounds of Joy no more falute the Ear, Horror fills ev'ry Breaft, and black Defpair ; 'With falt'ring Tongue the trembling Augur ftands. And weeping, prays with half up-lifted Hands ; Omens ( IZ7 ) Omens like this pronotmce the heavy Doom Of falling Empires y and dire Woes to come : Avert ity Thou^ whofe (s) Native Tribes we are ! Avert it^ Thou, who Argos maJi'Jl thy Care ! (t) Pelafgian Juno, hear, and grant our Prafr I Thro' ev'ry Rank the thrilling Accents ran. And ev'ry trembling Argive iigh'd, Anen ! Scarce was the pious votive Murmur ceas'd. When (u) tv^o brave Youths a (w) Rage Dime polTefs'd, Argivd*s Sons j forth from the hallow'd Band They ftart with rapid Fury, Hand in Hand, Seize the forfaken Yoke ; their Shoulders bow'd To the important Toil, and glad th'aftonifh'd Crowd. No more the Prieftefs weeps, the ecchoing Sky Again relounds the loud tumultuous Joy, Like breaking Waves, the diftant Accents roll ; And univerfal Tranfport reigns in All. Again the Mother fmiles, the (x) Graces v^dAt^ Her awful Chariot moves in folemn State : Patient of Toil, the pious Youths go on. And deathlels Glory by their Duty won j Each to excel in the great Labour ilrives, 'Till at the Temple Gates the pompous Train arrives : The Victims bleed, propitious 'Ju?20 fmiles. And grateful Omens confccratc their Toils. When thus Argiva to the Ntimen pray'd. In the full Torrent of her Joys, and f lid ; let the great eft Good the Gods canjend^ ^he richeft Bleffing, this great A5i attend i Let Guardian Angels bear the Bounty down. And with the Godlike Gift the pious Heroes crown ! WIdi ( 12.8 ) With ravIfliM Soul, flie fcarce this Pray'r had fpoke. When (y) Thunder from the Left aufpicious broke. And feaPd the Vow. Then peaceful Slumbers rofe Around the hallow d Pair, and foft Repofe Sooth'd Nature to her long eternal Reft -, Too fatal liTue of a rafli Requeft : The weeping Mother mourns her fatal Pray'r 5 When tlius (z) Olympia fpoke '.—Vam Tears forbear^ Thy Sons are happy ^ and above thy Care ; Seated in Blifs^ the greateft Good they hioiv^ Joys which thro' long Eternal Periods fow^ ^ Secure from Pajjion^ and exempt froin Woe. \ Argiva heard, and from her Death-pale Brows The facred Fillets and Tyara throws, With Mother's Pangs their Clay-cold Corpfe embrac'd. And fainting, fought their Souls among the Blefb'd. NOTES to Emblem XLIII. (a) Qo^ucl'ribes— 'Egyptians foc?\V<\, {torn C'jff'js, an ancient City of that Country upon the Red Sea, and gi^'ing Name to the \v hole, ^ua/i aia Coptow^ the Land of Coptos j near which were the cnginal Seats of the Cafthorim, Sons of Mizraim, from whence berg driven by tke Fugitive Canaamtes, or PhaKicians, flyii-g from J'jihua, they invaded the reft of the Lower Egyft, cftnquer'd 'he Kingdom of Memphis, and lay'd the Foundation of what Mjnetbo terms the Pajioral Dynnjiies ^ thefe were cxpell'd again by the Kings of thebjis, or Upper Eg\pt, flying for S'lel'er at feveral times to Phcenicia, y^fia Minor^ and Greece y to which laft. Colonies were Jed hy Peldfgus, Leiex, Inachtis, and o'bers, under the general N: me of Pelafgi, or Difpers''d IVanderers j thofe under biachtis feiz'd ^rgos a:.d Sicyon j Irom whom were deriv'd the fucceeding Inhabitants. {h) Choirs 0\ym\)\c—-Th& ^gyptijns vs'd Voices in Chorus with Timbrelc, irTtcad of Pipes, in their Sacrifices; call'd Olympic, in i-?onour of Juno Olympia, wbo was had in peculiar Honour at ^rgos. Sec Note {%). (c) Profxmnia — J'-trio, fo call'd from a Temple flie had at Pra- fymn-aa, \\>.ysStraho \ others from Prvfymna^ one of the Hons, Da'igh- wrs ol jijerion, who nuri'd her. {d) Mitfd ( 12,9 ) {d) Af?V<^5ra/«J — Soterm'dffom thz Mithng, M Flllefs, wliicfi the, Veftals of Juno alw^^ys wore round theii Temples, quaji Mitot Hfras Fila Junonis-, to which yifollomus gives the Epithet of Incorrufta, as denoting the unluUy'd Purity of Virgin Innocence. (f) Purple VeJ}cih—~?:crr\ rhe Colour of their Veils, which Kind of Ornament the Romafts alfo us'd in their Sacrifices, JEneai having been commanded fj to do bv Helenas in Virg. Mn. 3. when he fleis) who carce with Bacchui to the Siege of thai City, ard vxere there llain \q\ ^'rginja — Pneltel's of Juno j^rgiva, which Epithet wai; given to Juno on Account of her being faid by Homer to have been born at ^rg')S\ as thitof Fehfpica v:-is for the fam.e Real'jn, the original j1rgiv:s having horn the iS'ati.e of Pehij};i, as above in Note [a). (r) y^zure God — Inac^us, Farher of V-?, fabl'd ro be rurn'd isto a River-, fee Ov. Met. «hich River, {'-Ays Straho, is the only one of ISote in ^rgos, on or near which the City ftands. (j) Native Trihes'—Stt above Note (q). {t) Pelafgian Jwio — See Note {q). iSo Argos is call'd Pelafgian by Homer, (^ti) Tivo l>raveToutBs — Ckol>is and Biton, Sons to the Prieftefs of Juno y^rgiva, reprefented by Soloft to Croefus in Herodotas for this pious Adion to be much happier than h© in all his Wealth and Grandeur. (w) Rage Divine -~ kn Excejfus Mentis CoKcitaticne quadam InfluxHS Divini, as defcrib'd by Cic. de Div. i. and to which the Hevthen im[-ured all A&s of uncommon and aftoniftiint^ P'ety, Courage, or Wifdom, asalfo the Gift of Prophecy and Divine Dreams. Plato in PLedro terms it a facred Fury imparted to Man by Impulle of the Divinity, far exceeding Natural Wifdom and Prudence i by which, fnys he, both the Oracles of Dsdona and Delpkos were dtliver'd, Sibyl prophecy'd, and others have gone beyond the common Force of ISIarure ,• to which may be apply'd that of Laertius in Stoicis, That thofe only may properly be term'd Divine Per ons who are fill'd with the Divinity. Wc call this a Stare of hnthujiafm.^ and the Suhjedfs of if p.nthufiajis, in Contradiifindtion to the C>jerations of the true 331vine Spirit by Inlpirarion. (jf) Graces 7ra/; — Alluding to the Crown on the Statue of the T rojymnian Juno, defcrib'd by Puufanius, in which the Hours and Giaces were wroughr with molt sdmirable Workmanlhip. ^V) Thunder /row the Left — The Left Hand in Auguries uas alwa;. s held fortunate ; fee Cic, de Div. I. i. and fo eftabhfh'd by the Law of the Twelve Tables, v:htv.zt Into/rait I ctvum of Virgil, to (i^nify a lucky Omen. (2) Olympia — Juno, the Wife and Sifter of Jupiter Olxmpius ; tho' generally apply'd to all the Upper or Caleilial Deities, todilfin- g;ji(h them from thole of a Lower Rank, fignifying no more than -^/V Jlining ijiith Light, iee Note {b). Emblem ( '3 1 ) V/. y- 'S* " Emblem XLIV. The RECALL, WHAT, hoa! deluded Soul, forbear to fly/ Forfaking Heav'n and me, forfaking Joy I What Charm has Ruin, that your faithlefs Heart Thus leaves her firft fair Love, to take falfe Nature's Part ? See vv^here the glitt'ring Objedl you purlue Lays open all its Horrors to the View ; Harmonious Order decks the outward Scene, Bat, O ! 'tis flaming Mifery within : Like ^dom\ gilded Fruit it cheats the Eye ; But Plagues and Death beneath the Surface Ive. I 2 ' The ( 13* ) The fl:iinmg Mlfchlef Captive Senfe invites, Stifles with Cliarms, and poifons with Delights. Thus calls the watchful Spirit, to whofe Care (If Human Beings Charge of (a) Angels are) Each living Soul Almighty Heav'n commends. When down from radiant Worlds the Guardian Form Ihe fends. Calls with repeated Voice by Omens, Dreams, By Confcience and our (/^) Pallions flowing Streams j But, O ! in vain, for wlnat can Nature move, When ev'ry Scene corifpires to heighten Love ? When ftrong Example leads us to Defire, And Youth and Beauty fan the raging Fire. Thrice happy he, who 'midfl: the grand Debate Preferves his Virtue, and prevents his Fate : Not that to fallen Reafon's partial Voice He owes his Safety, but his Guardian's Voice 5 By that relenting Mercy calls him home. Triumphs o'er Nature, and averts his Doom. NOTES on Emblem XLIV. {a) Charge of ^ngeh -—S^e. before Emblem IV. Note (g), for the Senflments of the wifer Heathen concerning Guardian Angels j to^ v/liich may be added, in Confirmation of it, the allow'd Conlent ot both Jensnlb and Chrijiian Divinity, and, above all, the direft Atteftatlon of the Word of God. (^) Pii£ions flotring Streams — Thit Sjinits both good and bad work on our Pallions, by Itirring up the Humours of the Human Body, is, 1 think, generally allow'd and undeniably prov'd by the Arguments _r A^..: !_ . c .... _.. 1 .u./^ 11 ,1* /^,.,,,\„Z_^ ;r. like. Emblim ( 133 ) Emblem XLV. rhe CONSOLATION. NO fooner had the firll-form'd Man betra/d By one rafli Ad that Nature which he wore. But his loft Race were wretched Viaims made To confcious Guilt, and the fall'n Angel's Pow'r: Wrapt in dark Clouds of Ignorance we lay Benighted, loft, and ev'ry way undone ; Peace, Innocence, and Hope were flown away. And all the Glories of our Nature gone. So Ev'ning Clouds the haft'ning Day conceal, Andchearful Light to gloomy Darknefs bows; I 3 So ( 134 ) 'i So blooming Beauty weep§ beneath a Veil ; ;■ And Northern Tempefts check the op'ning Rofs : ,■ Thus Nature mourn'd. Age after Age expir'd, \^ No dawning Gleam of future Joys {he faw ; | 'Till in Prophetic Streins from Heav'n infpir'd, Hope dawn'd imperfedl in the Moral Law ; At length Redetnptioji^ like the beamy Day, Broke from Empyrean Worlds, andfhone around s Reviving Nature triumph'd in its Ray, . And Grace and Glory in the Lumen found : ' Man, cheariul Man, no longer then purlu'd The fleeting Shadows of uncertain Blifs j Th' Almighty Image in his Soul renew'd, Bid Reafon bow to Faith ^ and falfe Delufions ceafe : No bleeding Victims then high Altars ftain'd. No pompous Folly bore Religion's Name ^ No more the Firft Pure Being was profan'd With Clouds of Incenfe from the impious Flame, A burning Heart was then Heav'n's Sacrifice, The flowing Tears a rich Libation paid, Triumphant Souls by Faith cou'd pierce the Skies, And Track* of Azure Worlds in Gloiy tread. So once Elijah^ from the Sacred Coafl: Born on a flaming Chariot, wing'd his way To glowing Orbs and Heav'n's JEtherial Koft, And lives immortal in a Flood of Day. Emblem ( T^jc; X IL M B L E M XLVr. r^i^ Force (5/ PIETY. *^~T^ I S well, Philofophy ! No more I'll court *- A Thy faithlefs Charms, th' Enjoyment is too fhort I meet in Nature ; while my ad:ive Soul Pants after brighter Worlds, where GOD is All in Alii There Truth is only found : O ! Sacred PowV, Stream down into my Heart the balmy Show'r Of thy Almighty Grace ; I feel it here, Heav'n hears my Voice, and has indulg d my Pray'r ^ The Sacred Wifdom of thy Crofs and Thee^ O endlefs Source of Immortality ! I 4 Hcnc^ ( '36 ) 'Mence I'll purfue ; 'till for (a) Ideal Joys Thy Heav'nly Vilion all my Soul employs : Welcome, Seraphic Streams of Sacred Love, Earneft of Glory and the Blifs Above j How my Heart pants and opens all for Thee, Nature is Tranfport, Reafon Extafy j All Heav'n is in my Breaft : So the Firft Man Felt the ftrong vital Pang, v^^hen Life began ; His Nerves all trembled with a Flood of Joy, Unknowing what he felt, with upcaft Eye To Azure Worlds, he own'd the Pow'r Supreme ; Glow'd with Immortal Love, and triumph'd in the Flame. NOTE to Emblem XLVI. (a) hha/ ^ovs-^Thit\5, the Anticipations of fhofefurure Glories which are relcrv'd tor our Immor'al Stite, by the Fofc^of Imagination urouoh; upon by Faith and a lively Hope in our Minds ; as fhe Shadow in Colours of any diftant Profpcdl is flung by the Optic Glafs of a Camrr-i ohfcura in Miniature upon the Table of Reception? call'd Ideal^ from Idea, (ignilying Forma, Species, the imaginary Draught in the Mind of Man of lome real Form, which if irlully and wholly reprefents, is terni'd an adequate Idea, if imperfeftly and in Part only, then is it inadequate or incapable of reprelen'ing the entire Objeft i of which laft Kind are all thofe we can enjoy in this Life of God and Immortality, for that, as St. Paul fays to xhtCorinthiatis, ive JioTxy only fee in p^rt, and prophecy in part ; but rvhen thai xt'hich is ferfcci jhall be come^ then iball that ixhich is in fart bt ^^ Emblxm ( 137 ) E M B L EM XLVII. Iha HERMIT. WITHIN this lonely melancholly Cell Shou'd no vain Thoughts, no Pride, nor Envy dwell ; The Soul within herfelf ferene, fhou'd here Like Nature's Golden Infancy appear. Religious, unambitious, and fincere ; Abilradted from dull Earth : To fuch a Breafl: 'Tis no wild Defart, but a Place of Reft, In which from Pallion's Tyrant Pow'r fet free, The Soul moves calmly on to Immortality : With ( I3S ) With penitential Tears paft Crimes flie mourns, And in Seraphic Love's Mtherial Transports burns. Unenvy'd, undifturb'd in thefe Retreats, The pious Being true Perfedlion meets ; Retir'd and free from the World's hurrying Noife, Sweet is her peaceful State, fincere her Joys ; No Grandeur charms, no guilty Greatnefs moves. No Wealth fhe longs for, nor frail Beauty loves : ^ Virtue is her fair Choice ; no jealous Fears With fancy'd Woes her anxious Bofom wears ; No Care fhe knows, no Dread of being Great, No wretched Pomp of miferable State Unhinge her Thought ; but All is facred there ; Her Days all Piety, her Nights all Pray'r :- Heaven's holy Love each blifsful Hour employs. And liil'ning Angels fmile to fee her Joys. Emblem ( ^39 ) Emblem XLVIII. SIBYL. Corpnre toto flupens, trah r huc^ ignota quid ip fa Ehquar i Ipfe fed hac mandstt Ceus omnia furi. Carm Sis. Ed. Call. p. 193. HOW wrapt in Thought ! the Sacred Book fhc holds, Whofe awful Page the World's laft Doom unfolds : From {a) Libyan Shores the {b) Mantic Virgin came. And taught ( c) Chaldean Realms to Ipread her Fame ; Greece next fhe faw, and in [d) Idean Groves, Seat of (e) Q.cnone% Woes and fatal Loves, Wild ( 14° ) Wild and enraged, with more than Mortal Fire, She (f) Ipoke what Heav'n or Heav'nly Forms infpir'd: The Infant World defcrib'd in myflick Verfe, And all the Horrors of the Flood rehearsed ; Forefaw that Morn when Mortals (liould no more Mourn their loft Glories and the Damojfs PowV ; Reveal'd the Source whence Mercy firft began. Nature's Redemption, and the Rife of Man : To Spartan Heroes fpoke Trofs heavy Doom ; And wept in Tears of Blood thy Fate, O Rome ! But what is thine, to what Skies, Earth, and Sea, And Elements fhall feel, when Time Hiall be In its laft Clofe ? Her myftic (g) Vilions iliew The AU-confuming Fires which then fhall flow From immaterial Orbs to burn thefe Worlds below. \ Tliis was the fatal Burthen of her Song ; Such Themes to [h) Fythian Mufes beft belong -, (/) Compell'd to utter what fhe fcarce believ'd ; While tender {k) Leaves the {1} unknown Truths received : In fcatter'd Heaps the hallow'd Foliage lay. Some eat by Time, fome blown by Winds away. Whence broken Numbers in her Verfe we find. The Senfe imperfedt, but the Force Divine: Ages roU'd o'er 'em, to Mankind unknown, 'Till {ni) Qumce\ Sage firft made the Work her own; From (;z) ^///VClimesbi ought the rich Treafure home. And bore the copy'd Oracles to Rome : (o) Bartered th'important Volumes there for Gold, Twice three confum'd, the others meanly fold ; To Mortal's Cenfure Fate's great Rolls betray'd. And Kins: and People trembl'd as they read. ^ ^ • NOTES ( HI ) NOTES on Emblem XLVIII. Siiyl-^h as much as to fay, a Perfon confclous of the Divine Counlel or Decrees, and capable of revealing 'em in Oracular Pr«- diflions, from Sios, JEolice^ fro fheios, Divinum, et Boule^ Coijfilium i whence call 'd Sabba, and Sambetha^ en the fame Account^ by ofher Nations. Of thefe, common Opinion reckons up ten, which, according to P'arro'sL'iii, are, the Per/ia^iy Libyan, Delphic, Cunicean, Erythraean, Samian, Uelleffontic^ Phrygian, 'JLiburtine^ and She o( Cuma; all which ;*re, by Dionyfius Halicar, Strabo^ Jofephas, and others, refolv'd into one, that is, the Erythr^f an, whom her Prophecies of the Mkssiah's Birrh, State of the Gofpel, and Confummation of all Things, have plac'd in a more confpicuous Light than the reft : Bu£ Paufanias from Cumanus admits of four j that is, Lamia, Daughter of Neptune and Libya, who was the Perjic, and Libyan of Varro^ Erophyla, her Daughter, who was the £ry/^r^j», and, by travelling to Marpejfus, Samos, and other Cities, where {he utter'd Oracles, feems to unite theCharadersof the Erythraean, Samian, Hellefpontic and Phrygian, or Idean, Sibyl, the laft from Mount Lda in Phryi^ia, the original Seat borh ol herfelf and Mother j Demo, the Daughter ot Erophyla, by the Name of Idea, who prophecy'd at Cuma m JEolis y and, laftly, Sabba, the Babylonian, which is indeed only a Repetition of the firft or oldeft Sibyl. To which Clement adds j^rtemis, or Themis, the Daughter of Lamia, and Sifter of ^pollo^ the Delphic Sibyl. But to purfue the common Tradition. The ift, or PerJianS'ihyl, wrote of theAd^s of Alexander, as aifo of the Preaching of John the Baptift, and is fometimes call'd the Chaldee and HebretJi) Sibyl ; the Sambctha of Suidas, The id, or Libyan, is mention'd by Euripides in the Prologue to his Lamia, and is Ibmefimes term'd the ^Egyptian S\h\\ ; and is by Paufanias, under the Name of Zawo, taken co be the fame witf» the former, and I think with his 4th alfo, whom he calls Sabba the Babylonian. The 3d, or Delphic, ^ Ckryfippus calls Themis, but Clement of Alexandria. Arthemis, making her the Daughter of Lamia, ani Sifter of Apollo; many of whole Verfes are faid to be engrafted by Homer into his Poems. The 4th was the Cuma^an, ef Cuma in JEolis, Dejno by Name, whole Urn was feen by Jultine Martyr in that City ,• fhe was the Daughter of £ro;)^v/^, the £/-y//jr^.7'? Sibyl, and of en miftaken ior herj was vifiied by P^.neas under the Name of Dtibhobe^ fiourifhing about the Time of the TrOjan War. The 5rh was Erophyla, call'd alfo Idea, the D.)ughter of Laynia, andf Mother of Deim, whofe firft Seats were on Mount Ida in Phrxgi.j, from whence fhe remov'd to Erythr*e, and other Places, by t.'ac iH€iori:is, by Siillico, before which Time aimoft all the FathetN of the ftcond, and many of the third and fourth Centuries, had made ufe of their TelHmony againft the Heathen in Behalf of Chrijiianity, and even Conflantin? himfelf, after the moil exaft Enquiry, approv'd their Authority ^ the Subjedl and Subftance of their Oracular Prieiiflions agreeing with that of the molt ancient Copies recelv'd with Vcneraiion even by the wifer Ueathtr.i ( 143 ) tJfatheni therrfelves, efpecially the Platonijls, long before the Times of Adrian or Ju/iine ; fo fhat ir is amazing ro me that fo many now rejedl 'em, at leaft it would be fo, if I did not confider thtt Scepticifm and heethinhin^ fupply the Place with too many of Pi«ty nnd Religion, and whatever makes againft 'em is never to be admitted by 'em: Otherwife, it is eafy to believe that the P.iems we now have are what were preferv'd by private Copies frotn the excellent Originals, before they were loft j imperfect, it is true, thro* the Want of Po.^er to collate them, and in fome things inter- polated, thro' the Envy of Hereticks -. But if nothing is to be re- ceiv'd but what is pure at^d perfed, we muft rejedi all the Fathers, and ftrip ChrijTianity of all Human Atteftation. (a) Libyan Shores— - Lamia, the firft snd moft ancient Sibyl, was Daughter of Neptune, King of Libya Cyrenaica, the Ncptuchim of the Ancients, and Libya h's Wife ,• and Gnojie, ?.s fhe terms herfelf, that is, nearly related to Ifis, the Sifter and Wife ol 0/iris, King of F.^yft. From hence fhe went to Babylon^ whether, as many other Libyan Women did, following the Fortwnes of 0/iris, or Bacchus, in Ms grand H^xpedifion, it not told us i but it is certain ft-iC went Irom thence to Grefc? much about that Time, fov ^fo//'ydorus ixxes )( ro the Reign of Ficus in Ifaly, who was younger Half- Brother to Minos^ W'hofe Daughter, yfriadne, Bacchus, or Oftris, married in that Ex- pedition i and fhe fays herfelf, That tho' fhe was of another Country, Ihe fhall be taken by the Greeks for Circe j and Circe was fee, who being in Love with Picas, chang'd him, out of Jealoufy, into a Bird of his own Narre, according to the Humour of the Poets. Ac Babylon Ihe feems fiift to have alTum'd her Prophetic Chara(fter, being there call'd Sabba, which is the fame as Sibyl i from whence, fhe tells us, flie came to Greece, whither, fays Paufanias, the Sibyline Poems wers firft brought out of ^/ia. {b) Mantic Virgin— -Is as much as to fay Prophetic, by a Divine F'^ry, for fo rht Greeks us'd the Term Manteia, frotn miinomai^ infanio, Plato in Pka:-drot.e\ms it the Cjift of Ged to Man, and refers to it both the Oraclespl Delphos and Dodona, and the Sibyline Poemf, which muft iieverthelefi be taken with this Diftindlion of Cicer'j\ de Div. 1. r. ^od terne vis Pythiam Delphis incitabat Natune Sibyllani, who, he fays a little before, particularly naming the Erythri£3n, deliver'd hfer Oracles per furorern i/iJiinSu afflatuque d/nino i : s did alii) rr-any of rf.e rrioft famous Poets, f^ys Plato in lone i for, fays his Commctifac-r //V//avj, there were fjur Sorts of Divine Fury, iuirable to the four Afcents of the Soul to her firft great Principle and (Tiginal Perfcdion ,• that is to fay. Poetic, which is fhe loweft ; Myftic, which is '^ hat we may properly term Religious, and was the ad J Mantice, or the Gil"t of Prophecy and Divi.arion, fhe 3d ; and Love, mear.ifig that of Divine Objedts, the 4th and nigheit. See more in Embl. XLllI. No'e (<:t) {c) C\ra\ds2n Realm.- — Buoylon (o aW'i, not from the Chaldffs, who were the Defcend^nrs of Shem, and were i'o ternj'd from Chal, tota, J:v? umverj'alis,_jt Dath^ Lex, from their Obiervation of the whole Law, ihat is, of Nature conhrm'd by God to Man ; bur Irom its abounding with a Race of li.perftitiouj Aitrologers, Caicula'ori of Nativities, ( 144 ) Nativities, and Supputators of Times j call'd Chafdim^ from Chafat, /upputare^ numerare, &* Daim temforay for io the original Word is wiote, tho' render'd by us Chaldeans. {d) Idean Gro'uej — Mount Ida in Pirygia, where Sii>yl flx'd her £rft Seats, probably on the Return of O/iris, or Bacchus^ the Sefufiris of £gypft fo h's own Country, as the Libyan Amazons, wh© came w-ith him, alfo did theirs on the Banks of Thermodon, his Singing Won.en on Mount Helicon^ and others in other Places j concerning which lee Sir f/aac Neuoton's moll excellent Chronology. {e) Oemne-- A Nymph of Mount Ida^ belov'd by Paris when a Shepherd, but forfaken by him when he knew he was a Prince. She is faid to have told him, on his going to Greece^ that he would bring home with him the Firebrand ot his Country. (f) She fpake ivhat Heav'n — See before Note (/). That the Sibylline Poems were wro'e by an Inlpir'd Impulfe, is univerl'ally al- Jow'd, not only by th? belt and wilelt Heathen^ but the moft early Fathers of the Chrifiian Churcb ; among whom, Juftine Martyr, Clem. Alex, ^ertullian, St. ferom, and St. Aiiflin, not to mention Confiantine the Emperor, ftand in the forcmoft Rank, looking •n 'em as a Kind of facred Anchor againft the Enemies of Chrijlianity j and tho* a late Author has labour'd much to little Purpofe to depreciate both , by Influx of an unclean Spirit, whom the Grceis rerm'd Pytho^ and the Hebrews On, afcending out of a Hole in the Earth in the Cave of Delphos, cmcernii'g the Manner whereof you may conlult Plut. de Orac. Def. Seld. de Deis Syr. &c. from thence it has been ufuai to apply the Term Pythian to all e.xt tic and cnthufiaftic Perlormanceo, See Embl. XXVI. Kihq {dj. (/) Compell'd to utter — See Note f)reg()ing, and {b) above. (/') Leaves — On which the Sibyfline Ovzcies were wrote, as both n rgi I and J^i/vena I menuon,. giviig the Name ol Erofhyla, or, as S',iir]us fpells it, Eriphyla, (a Speaker by Leaves) to the Erythrctean Sibyl, as obferv'd ; bove. (/) Unl'no'U'n Truths — So this Kind of Prophecying, excej/u mentis, is defcrib'd by St. Ambrofe, on Pf. },9. the Perfons \o prophecying, fays he, being tranfported as to their Underftanding, fpuke what they knew not, being io fiU'd with the Spirit, that they fecm'd dilhadled ; ( 145 ) as Si^l fays of herfelf in the Motto to this Emblem, and in other Places of her Prophetick Writings. (m) Cumae'jhr be Competitor wi:h him tor the Supreme Place 5 afer which, Uys Apo/lodorus, going to the Lake Triton, when the Time for the Ch^ld'sfjeing born was come, Proi^ie- iheus open'd his Head, and Pallid iifucd ow from it. Bit Herodotui fays fhe 'Aai Dau^her of Eeptune ^n6 Tritnnia, but being difgulied wth her Father, flung herfelf under 'Ju[iter\ Proceif^ion, who adopfed her: And Sir Ifaac makes her, under the Name ol Myri;;a, lead the Libyan Amazons (in which Country tie LakeT/-7>&«, where iT-.e was b"rn, and Games, Uy, Herod-jius, are celebrated to ber Honour, is) to Greeife, in the Exfediti')r of 0/iris, or the Egyptian Bacchus : Of which Country Pompojius Mda alio makes her, tl/o' Paujamas K I endeavours ( ISO ) endeavours to prove her a Greeh. Of the fame Opinion with Mela^ and Heroditus is Lucmi alfo j and Diodorus tells us, ftie was call'd ^ritopema by tlie Egyptians. She feems to have been thought the GoJdefs of Prudence and Fortitude. [1] //)'ww — The God of Marriage, Son of Bacchus ini Fef2uSy fay lome, of Urania fays Catullus, but J^fclepiades fays of Calliope^ vihi;nce the Title of Mufe-burn is olten given him ; nut but there were foui others his Copartners in prcfidirig over the Marriage Rite, who \\er= 'fufiter^ Juno, Venus, ar.^/.dwelt upon their Tongue; The ( 158 ) The facred Accents, like the (e) Soul of Love, FilPd evVy FoHTi below, and ev'ry Orb Above : Then Harmony began, thence Order flow'd From Heav'*7i\ Ahnighty Voice, and ravifh'd Nature bow'd. See, Venerable Train, the Heav'ns bow down. And all its dazzling Glories are your own : Faith glows with Tranfport, Hope is hallo w'd Fire, And facred Charity all pure Deli re ; yuftice is void of Fear, chafte "Temperance fmiles. And Frudence Life's fad Vv^oes with future Joys beguiles : All wait on Thee, Brave Fortitude, and feel In ev'ry Storm of Life thy Comforts ftill ; Let Tempefls rage, let finking Nature fail. And the laft Wreck o'er the loil World prevail ; Still they are fixM on Thee, in that (f) lov'd Form, Whofe awful Smiles to True Devotion warm ; Thee they a^ore, to Thee their Voices frame. And fnig fweet (g) Hallelujahs to thy Name. NOTES /(7 Emblem LIIL (a) Jehovah -^Iht Great Tetragrammiton, or ineffable Name of God, confifting of four Letters among the Hearevv^, which vAas never pronwunc'd as wrote, but by the High Priell on the Great Day of Expiation in the Holy of Holies, for which, fays R. Mof. JEg. in More Neh. the pious Fathers invented the Name of tweire Letters, ^bhnruhhhdos^ pronounc'd JbLenruahahado^b, that is, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, bv 'ehich rhey us'd to blels the Con?rega-ion, 'till the Time of Simfon Jujius^ who was the laft that us'd it ,• after which the Name ^/^wtw, rh;U is, Lord, was u^'d in irs lleati, to (ignif) the Name Jehovah, IHFH, which they dud nor pronounce, being; the Nan.e, fays yfwwfsra, of the Dvine Elfcnce, cemprebendinfj Eter- nal Dur;^tion in itlelf, whence calTd Semkaimnephora., or the N»me explain'd, that is, which pointed out to then the E'crnify and Immcnfity of the Divine Nacur*;, admirably rendtr'd by S% J^h;: m the ^pocalyf'fi. Ho on iai ho an kai hj erkomenos, li oo is, ivbo %vas, and who is io come. (^) P'er'an ( IS 9: ). (b) Pierian 5'//-f/«J — That is, tfre Songs of tie Mnfes, cali'd Pierides by VirgiK Eel. i. from Fieri j, the ancienr EmatAia, ParC of Mace don, the Place of their Na'ivity, fijsSfrah, I. lo. But Sir J^aac Ne7JVto» fays they were fo cali'd from one P:erius, a Tkracijfiy who joining with feme JEgyftian Singing Women and Minllrels at- tending •J^'y^/^/'/j, cr 0/iris, that \st\\Q Egyptian Bacchus, in his Expedition to Greerf, lettied, at his Departure, near Mount Pjr«^Jot prowling Tygers hunting for their Prey, Not burning Mountains, from whofe glowing Womb Sulphureous Clouds obfcure the chearful Day, And flr^aming Peatjis in flaming Torrents run, ' '^ Can ( ^^1 ) Can check the mantling Blood, v/hlch ever glows On her fiiir Cheek j nor ftrike the confcions Thrill To her big Heart -, the Law of Heav'n flie knows. And bows, immov'd, obedient to its 'Will. Earth and its fliort-liv'd Glories trampl'd down, Heav'n is her Choice, and Heav'n's Almighty Love; Thence flow her Joys, her Tranfports and her Crown, By [a) miffivcASfr^/'-^i brought from Realms Above: Her Guardian Angel tends her fragrant Bow'r, A Ray of Sacred Light adorns the Place ; She knows no Crime, nor fears ev'n Hell's dark Pow'r, But treads fecure the Flow'ry Paths of Grace, True Fortitude is Heav'n's firft Excellence, GOD's Sacred Image in the Human Mind : A Beam of pure Divinity di(pens'd. To tinge our Nature with a Power Divine. NOTE to Emblem LVII. ' (fl) M?^z)f Seraphs -r- That is, Angela, fo call'd frogi ^a?^?//^, fo fend, being the Minifters and Meflengtrs of Heaven's Almighry Will to Man, as we read in Heh. i. 7. Hf maheth his ^ingeh Stint:^ and his Minijlers aflamir.g Fire y whicn would be as wtll render'd thns, He maketh the Sfirits his ^ngels^ or Mejffngers, and thr Seraphim his Minifters j the VVorJ Seraph fignifying as well a flaming Fire as a pure J^.thi;rial Spirit burning with the Love oi the Firlt Aioiigh'^y Being, L ^ Emblem ( i68 ) Emblem LVIII. JUSTICE. U S T I C Ej thou Sacred Form ! How much wa owe Of Peace and Bleffing to thy equal Law ? Man, without Thee^ hke Libya?! Tygers wild, Wou'd dwell in Caves, with Blood and Slaughter fill'di So (as by Time's, dark Pvecords we are told) Imperial Rome'^ {a) firfl: Fathers Hv'd of Old ; Tiie Mountain Race, by headilrong Nature fway'd. Nor Man, nor Confcience, nor the Gods obey'd ; So ]pmad\ Seed, the wild Arabian Band, Scour ^he vail Oefar^s o'er the glowing Sand j Hungry ( 1^9) Hungry for Prey, the burning Paths they try. Live void of Laws, and void of Confcience die: Tho' Heav'n's fair Image Man's proud Nature boaft. Wanting thy wholefome Terrors, ftill v^^e're loft ; Thy flaming Sword deters the harden'd Boor From Scenes of Blood, and checks the Crimes of Pow'r J Thy Ballance duly weighs our vain Defigns, And fliews us to ourfelves : In Thee we find The Charms of Government, and Social Ties, The Guard of Virtue^ and the Scourge of Vice -, Like pure Mtherial Fire, you try the Heart, Cleanfe it from Sin, and make the Confcience fmart j By Thee Ambition fleeps, Wars ceafe to rage. And Peace and Plenty crown a vicious Age. NOTE ^;^ Emblem LVHI. (a) "Romt^s firj} Fathers — The Aborigines of Italy\ or rather gfporotigrnoi, a Race of Mounrain 'troglod\'tes, like tht j^^thiopian Subiim, living in Dens and Caves on t'^\t Sides nf Mountains, as vce itiioi Cacus^ Polyphemus, and others of thofe dark Times. They are generally thought to have been a Colony, or rather Otfcaft, of the Pelufgi^ broughr from Arcadia by Oenotrus, or yanus, the Son of LycaoNy which Pelafgi were of that Troglodyte Race, z$ I have (hewn in Erriblem XLIII. Nores (a) and (<7): Tho* others think *em more ancient, as being fime of the Fugitive CoKaanites dr'we out by Jojhua, who fled to all the Sea-Coafts on both S'des the Mediterranean^ a Pillar in Memory of their Expjlfion being fjund near Hipfo on the A/ric S]\c,xt ; and this the rather, becaule A'? ori genor \n '■he old Phaemdan Tongue fignifies the fame a.$ Aporougenos in xh^Greehy and the Term Pelafgi irfelf alfo is of the fame Phasnician S'ock, i'gnifying a fcatter'd and divided People ; of which Race it is bv mod al!o*'d the f-cond Dyna(ty of jEgyftia/i Paflo:s, call'd, for Dittinc- tion'sSake, Phcenicians v/trc^ Embism ( I70 ) 1 1 Emblem LIX. TChe LAST AUTUMN. •TTTAKE, fleepy Soul! Th! Eternal Autumn ^ W comes, The Lab'rers have begun to clear the Trees, And gather Souls to their Eternal Homes, Awake and hear ! What ftartling Sounds are thefe ? See how the Evil Angel toils to heap His weighty Sack, and crams the Windfalls in ; Fruits, whofe weak Stems cou'd not their Station keep. But fell, unripen'd, with the Blaflsof Sin : But, O ! how few the Heav'nly Seraph finds. And pulls 'em gently with a tender Care 5 Such ( 171 ) Such as have flood the rough tempeftuous Winds, And ripen'd calmly in the foft fwcet Air : Alas, how very few ! A little Plate, A fmall neat Paten, holds th' Almighty's Share ; 'Tis well the Harveft is defcrr'd 'till late, Or elfe no Golden Fruit had rip'n'd there, Hafte, Holy Being, pull the Sacred Store, The Tempeft hurries on, fad Nature mourns, *Time and its rolling Periods are no more. The Mountains tremble, and the /Ether burns ; Scarce one fliort Moment more the Autumn lafts, Messiah's Trumpet founds j the Day is come. Bear what thou'fl gather'd to Eternal Reft, And leave th'unripen'd Wildings to their Doom. Yet there is Mercy ; Mercy, LORD, beftow, 'Twas boundlefs Mercy iirft our Nature rais'd ; The Stream is endlefs, let it ever flov/. And Myriads of poor Souls fhall fing thy Praife. pMBLEM ( 17^ ) Emblem LX. PERSEVERANCE. GO on, my Soul ! And tread the glorious Way, That leads triumphant to thofe Realms of Day; Purfue the Golden Path, behold the Crown, Leave this loft World, and That and Heav'n's thy own : See, the Veil opens, all the Mther glows. And trembling Nature at the Prolped: bows ^ Almighty Being endlefs Depths proclaim. And Floods of Glory fill th'Immortal Name ; There dazzling Beams break from the vaft Abyfs, There Angels triumph in Eternal Blifs^ There ( 173 ) There ElTence flows in Everlafting Rays, There Glory never fades, nor Life decays; Seraphic Vifions endlefs Joys infpire. All there is Excellence and pure Delire : Tlie ravifli'd Soul her Great Creator knows. And thence Immortal from theTranfport grows; The Way is eafy to that Bleft Abode, Mark'd by the Steps of a Redeeming GOD ; Ting'd with his Sacred Blood in Crimfon Streams, And fcrew'd all o'er with holy Martyrs Names, Enlightcn'd by his Love and their bright Flames : When thefc you fee, the Sacred Track purfuc And keep yon dazzling Glories in your View; Repent, be fcedfaft, from Pollution clear, Preferve the Faith, be humble and fincere. Be meek, be patient, pray, and perfevere, Hope fpeaks the reft ! I feel, I feel the Charm, 'Tis Heav'n with all its Joys ; Nature grows warm With the Almighty Tranfport ; Heav'n, Pm thine, O Thou Firft Being ! Let thy Spirit fhine In my unworthy Soul ! O feal me for thy own ! Give mc thy Crols, Dear LORD, and Pll not fear thy Crown ! FINIS. ADDENDA. TO Emblem X. Note (TV — J^othnt the BaalJritz, or Han fg^ of the Chaldee Syftem feems to have been the Source both of tjie Greek Ares and Roman Mars ; Aritx, or Haritz, fignifying Powerful, Tremendous, Strong, Potent, &c. and Maritz, from the fame Radix^ is the fame as Paa)or in Latin ; from which two Words the Names Ares and Mars are eafily derlv'd. 'To Emblem XXIII. Note (r) — Thence call'd Man, from the Hebreiv Mun, which fignifies Figure, Image, Likenefs, Species intelli- gibilis. Sec. as does alfo his Original Name Adam, the Word Adamah in Hehrenv being the fame with Similitudo in Latin, and fo us'd by Mofes on that verj' Occafion, as deriv'd from Damah, ajjimilare, to make or exhibit any Thing in the Likenefs of another ; fo alfo Jeremiahy Hofea, and others of the Prophets, ufe it in the fame iJenfe. As to the trifling Criticifm fome have made upon the Suppofition of a fiJfe Quantity in the Word Clymcne, in Emblem XV. let 'em know, the Accent in the Greek Word is not on the firft, but fecond Syllable ; and all Greek Words, which come to us entire, retain their Accent, fays Danefius ; which certainly ought to give the Tonic Emphafis to that Syllable, and not to the lirft, both being equally fhort Syllables, and the Accent no way affecling Quantity, but Emphafis, efpecially in Englijh Poetry, which being only Oratory coniin'd to Numbers, is within the Force of another Rule of Dancf.us, in his Profodia, Poeto', ut plurimum metri rat ion em habucriint, oratores autem aiires, fecuti funt. And A. Gellius, in his Nodes Attica, is of the fame Opinion. The READER is dcfir'd to correa the following Miftakes with his Pen. EM B.I. Ncte{h), /. 17, /or Mercury, r(f«^ Thyoth. Eml>. III. Note (g), /. uU. for Emb. VII. r^aiEmb. XXII.—- and Note (0), /. 1 4, for is begot, read has begot. Emb. IX. AW (h), /. 14, /or accounted, r(f<2^ anointed. Emb. X. iVb/f (b), /. 17, r^a^ Chamah and Chamanim and Note (e), /. II, Jor enmiontos, read eniontos ; and for Ennyalius, read Enialius or Enyalius, from enuo perimo, & als, oceanus j and Note (w), read M2.v'ms. Emb. XIII. /. 17, /or The Lofs, rf^^ The Want. Emb. XX. /.penult, for Truths, readTra.cks. Emb. XXII. Note (b), /. 8, read Anaxagoras'j and Note (e), /. 9, readFL civ. 3. Emb. XXVI. Note (a), /. 7, /«/ « Comma after Ofiris ««^r inquire, «^^, or rather from the Hebreiv Pit bbon apertura, a pathah aperire. Emb. XXVII. Note^a), I. I, /orEmb. VII. rf^7^Emb. XXII. Emb. XXX. Page go, I. ^1 , for fometimes affeft, read cant fome- times in and I. 22, read affume and at the End of Note (h), Pag. 93, add. The Word Cynofura being derived from the Omldee Chunejhera, fignifying verticullum, umbilicus ; and thence us'd to denote the Polar Star, or Axis of the World. Emb. XXXIII. Note (a), A 2, read Magellanica. £ot^. XXXIV. Note {c), I. 2, /)r Spirit, ; f^^/ SpiritV. Emb. XXXV. Note (g), /. 8, rffliSonorus. ETnb. XXXVI. /. II, for Foam-like, read Foam like and Note (a), /. 6, read Incantation and Note (b), /. 5, for included, r^«^ intended — and at the End of Note (e), add. Some derive Cypris from Kuprizo menujie germino and Note (h), /. pe?tult. read Talifmans. Emb. XL. /. 10, /or hallow' d, readfzcred. Emb. XLI. Note (b), /. 4, /or Sun's, r^a^Son's. £z>z^. XLIV. /. 25, /or Voice, read Choice- — and Note (b), /. 4» rf^^/Sum. £;»^. XLVIII. Note (b), /. 7, read Sibyllara and Note (g), /. 4, /or fay, read faw awrf' /. 7, r^-^^/ Balaam. £z«iJ. L. Note (1),