MOS

GOOD

WORKS

AND

пол

WILL

REAP

THE

MOST

LASTING

JOYS.

WE ARE NOT BORN FOR OURSELVES ALONE.

To the long defir'd haven,
Guided by its friendly ray.

Like unto that beacon, truly,

He of upright heart and mind,
Holding high his light fhould fhew the
Heav'nward way to all mankind.

Christian lift your light on high then,
Let it fhine o'er all, and fhew,
In this darkfome world to all men,
How and where that men fhould go.

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ET your Light so shine that men seeing your good works may glorify your Father
which is in Heaven.-Matthew v. 16.

WE labour in the boisterous sea: Thou standest upon the shore and seest our dangers give us grace to hold a middle course betwixt Scylla and Charybdis, that both dangers escaped, we may arrive at our Port secure.-S. AUGUST. Soliloq. cap. 35.

O LIGHT inaccessible, in respect of which my Light is utter darkness; so reflect upon my weakness, that all the world may behold thy strength: O Majesty incomprehensible, in respect of which my glory is mere shame; so shine upon my misery that all the world may behold thy glory.--HUGO, Pia Desid.

Propos'd to all men; and by them to Thee.-QUARLES, Hieroglyph viii.

He does wickedly, that does not shew the right to one who is in the wrong.

VIRTUTIS ENIM LAUS OMNIS IN ACTIONE

CONSISTIT.

HOLD OUT

THE

HAND

ΤΟ

HIM

WHO

HATH

FALLEN.

GOD IS A LIGHT THAT IS NEVER DARKENED.

HEAVEN doth with us, as we with torches do,

Not light them for ourselves; For if our virtues

Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike

As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touched,

But to fine issues; nor Nature never lends

The smallest scruple of her excellence;
But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines
Herself the glory of a creditor,

Both thanks and use.-SHAKESPEARE.

So far the little candle throws its beams,

So far shines a good deed in a naughty world!

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UI in occulto benè vivit, sed alieno profectui minimè proficit carbo est. Qui verò in imitatione sanctitatis positus, lumen rectitudinis ex sese multis demonstrat, lampas est: quia sibi ardet, et aliis lucet.-GREG. Super Ezech. homil. 5.

NUMQUAM est mutila opera civis bonis.-SENECA.

UTILE etiam exemplum quiescentis.

MELIUS homines exemplis docentur, quæ in primis hoc in se boni habent, quod approbant, quæ præcipiunt, fieri posse.-PLINIUS, Paneg

DOCTUS sine opere est ut nubes sine pluvia.-Adag. Arab.

SIC luceat lux vestra coram hominibus; id verò ex hoc fit, cùm apparet misericordia in affectu, benignitas in vultu, humilitas in habitu, modestia in cohabitatione, patientia in tribulatione.-HUGO, De Claustro Animæ, lib. 3.

SIC agitur censura, et ne exempla parantur,

Cum judex, alios quod manet, ipse facit.-OVID.

O LORD; who art the Light, the Way, the Truth, the Life; in whom there is no darkness, error, vanity nor Death: the Light, without which there is darkness; the Way, without which there is wandering; the Truth, without which there is error; the Life, without which there is Death: say, Lord, let there be Light, and I shall see Light, and eschew darkness; I shall see the Way, and avoid wandering; I shall see the Truth, and shun error; I shall see Life, and escape Death: Illuminate, O illuminate my blind Soul, which sitteth in darkness, and the shadow of Death; and direct my feet in the way of Peace.-S. AUGUST. Soliloq. cap. 4.

YET A LITTLE WHILE IS THE LIGHT WITH YOU.

SAVE

THE

UNFORTUNATE

WHO

HATH

ON

SUPPORT.

RIGHT

ROAD;

HE THAT DOETH GOOD, IS BETTER THAN THE GOOD HE DOETH.

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HEN ftormie Boreas puts the feas in rage,

And fwelling waves intefting warre do wage;
When fun is darkn'd, when night doth heav'n confound,
And foaming billowes give a difcord found.

My light then leads the way through reeling ftrands,
Guiding by Scyllas rocks, Charybdis fands.

Here we are toffed in a maine of feares;

But Chrift our admirall the lanterne beares;
Leaft we should fuffer fhipwracke in the night,
He leads us through all dangers by his light.

Who then wouldft come to Heav'ns long wifht-for bay,
Follow thy Saviour who's Truth, Light, and Way.

PUT

THE

WHO TRAVELLER

HATH

LOST HIS WAY, UPON

THE

UNFORTUNATE

WHO

SI

ABOUT

TO

PERISH.

VAN

ROOCK

WERD' ICK

GEVOEDT.

LOVERS LIVE BY LOVE, AS LARKS BY LEEKS.

NOMO SOLUS, AUT DEUS, AUT

DÆMON.

AS JET DRAWS A STRAW,

Than Smoke, no other thing he fold, or made;
Smoke all the substance of his ftock in trade;
His Capital all Smoke, Smoke all his store,
'Twas nothing else; but Lovers ask no more—
And thousands enter daily at his door!
Hence it was ever, and it e'er will be
The trade moft fuited to his faculty:—

Fed by the vapours of their heart's defire,
No other food his Votaries require;

For, that they feek-the Favour of the Fair,

Is unfubftantial as the Smoke and air.

AMORES et delicia maturè, et celeriter deflorescunt.—CICERO pro. M. Cal.

OMNIA speramus, promissaque vana fovemus
Molliter et faciles ad nova vota sumus.

Intereà totum paupertas possidet ævum,

Cacaque volvendo somnia, vita perit.-DANIEL HEYNS.

Love.

THE cherish'd Fire,

Which blindly creeps through every vein and dries
The fluent blood, whence grosser vapours rise,
Sadding the soul with fearful phantasies.

It is to be all made of fantasy,

All made of Passion, and all made of wishes;
All adoration, duty, and observance ;
All humbleness, all patience, and impatience;
All purity, all trial, all obedience.-SHAKESPEARE.

LOVE reigns a very tyrant in my heart,
Attended on his throne by all his guards

Of furious wishes, fears and nice suspicions.-OTWAY.

O MIGHTY Love! from thy unbounded power,

How shall the human bosom rest secure?

How shall our thoughts avoid the various snares?

Or Wisdom to our cautioned soul declare

The different shapes thou pleasest to employ,

When bent to hurt, and certain to destroy !-Solomon.

THERE'S nothing half so sweet in Life as Love's young Dream.-MOORE.

SO DOES BEAUTY LOVE.

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