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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>This moderne Emblem, is a mute expressing<lb/>
                                Of Gods great Mercies, in a Moderne-blessing ;<lb/>
                                And, gives me, now, just cause to sing his praise,<lb/>
                                For granting me, my being, in these dayes.<lb/>
                                The much-desired Messages of Heav'n,<lb/>
                                For which, our Fathers would their lives have giv'n,<lb/>
                                And (in Groves, Caves, and Mountaines, once a yeare)<lb/>
                                Were glad, with hazard of their goods, to heare;<lb/>
                                Or, in lesse bloudy times, at their owne homes,<lb/>
                                To heare, in private, and obscured roomes.<lb/>
                                Lo; those, those Ioyfull-tydings, we doe live<lb/>
                                Divulg'd, in every Village, to perceive;<lb/>
                                And, that, the sounds of Gladnesse, eccho may,<lb/>
                                Through all our goodly Temples, ev'ry day.<lb/>
                                This was ( Oh God ) thy doing; unto thee,<lb/>
                                Ascrib'd, for ever, let all Prayses bee.<lb/>
                                Prolong this Mercie, and, vouchsafe the fruit,<lb/>
                                May to thy Labour, on this Vine-yard, suit:<lb/>
                                Lest, for our fruitlesnesse, thy Light of grace,<lb/>
                                Thou, from our Golden candlesticke, displace.<lb/>
                                We doe, me thinkes, already, Lord, beginne<lb/>
                                To wantonize, and let that loathing in,<lb/>
                                Which makes thy Manna tastlesse; And, I feare,<lb/>
                                That, of those Christians, who, more often heare,<lb/>
                                Then practise, what they know, we have too many:<lb/>
                                And, I suspect my selfe, as much as any.<lb/>
                                Oh! mend me so, that, by amending mee,<lb/>
                                Amends in others, may increased be:<lb/>
                                And, let all Graces, which thou hast bestow'd,<lb/>
                                Returne thee honour, from whom, first, they flow'd.<lb/>
                            </p>
                        
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SEQ 77
PARENT embstma_1903
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
NEXT embstma_1903_emblem078
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
CAPTION_EN A minister in a church, preaching to a large congregation
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LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1903_fac095
MOTTO_LA <p>DEVS NOBIS HAEC OTIA FECIT.</p>
                        
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 11P341(MINISTER)
; 11Q71454
; 11Q722
; 11Q733
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; 31A2521
; 31D15(+53)
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; 42B7421
; 56D3(+4)
; 86(DEUS NOBIS HAEC OTIA FECIT)
MOTTO_EN <p>The Gospel, thankefully imbrace;<lb/>
                                For, God, vouchsafed us, this Grace.</p>
                        
URL_IMAGE embstma_1903_pic095.jpg
ID embstma_1903_emblem077
MOTTO_LA_NORM Deus nobis haec otia fecit
CHILDREN 
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