Author: Francis Quarles

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9781230168333

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ... a furnish'd pack, whose wares Are sullen griefs, and soul-tormenting cares: A vale of tears, a vessel tunn'd with breath, By sickness broach'd, to be drawn out by death: A hapless, helpless thing, that, born, does cry To feed, that feeds to live, that lives to die. Great God and man, whose eye spent drops so often For me, that cannot weep enough; O soften These marble brains, and strike this flinty rock; Or, if the music of thy Peter's cock Will more prevail, fill, fill my heark'ning ears With that sweet sound, that I may melt in tears! 1 cannot weep until thou broach mine eye; O give me vent, or else I burst, and die. S. AMBROS. in Psal. cxviii. He that commits sins to be wept for, cannot weep for sins committed; and being himself most lamentable, hath no tears to lament his offences. Nazianz. Orat. iii. Tears are the deluge of sin, and the world's sacrifice. S. HiERON. in Esaiam. Prayer appeases God, but a tear compels him: that moves him, but this constrains him. Epig. 8. Earth is an island ported round with fears; Thy way to Heav'n is through the sea of tears; It is a stormy passage, where is found The wreck of many a ship, but no man drown'd. The sorrows of hell compassed me about, and the snares of death ptevented me.--PSALM xvm. 5. Is not this type well cut, in ev'ry part Full of rich cunning! fill'd with Zeuxian art? Are not their hunters, and the Stygian hounds Limn'd full to th' life? didst ever hear the sounds Of music, and the lip-dividing breaths Of the strong winded horn, recheats, and deaths, Done more exact 1 th' infernal Nimrod's halloo? The lawless purlieus? and the game they follow? The hidden engines, and the snares that lie So undiscover'd, so obscure to th' eye? The new drawn net, and her entangled prey? And him...