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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>Although there bee no Timber in the Vine,<lb/>
                                Nor strength to raise the climbing Ivie-twine,<lb/>
                                Yet, when they have a helper by their side,<lb/>
                                Or, prop to stay them, like this Pyramide,<lb/>
                                One roote sometime, so many Sprayes will beare,<lb/>
                                That, you might thinke, some goodly Grove it were:<lb/>
                                Their tender stalkes, to climbe aloft, are seene;<lb/>
                                Their boughs are cover'd with a pleasant greene;<lb/>
                                And, that, which else, had crept upon the ground,<lb/>
                                Hath tops of loftie trees, and turrets crown'd.<lb/>
                                This Emblem, fitly shadowes out the Natures<lb/>
                                Of us, that are the Reasonable-creatures :<lb/>
                                For, wee are truely by our nat'rall-birth,<lb/>
                                Like Vines undrest, and creeping on the earth;<lb/>
                                Nor free from spoyling, nor in case to beare<lb/>
                                Good fruits, or leaves, while we are groveling there.<lb/>
                                But, if new-borne by Grace, streight borne are wee,<lb/>
                                From earthly creepings, by that Living-tree,<lb/>
                                Which, here, was planted, meerely to this end,<lb/>
                                That, by his pow'r, our weaknesse might ascend.<lb/>
                                And, hee our frailtie to himselfe so takes,<lb/>
                                So, of his might, the partners us hee makes;<lb/>
                                That, hee, in us, doth seeme to hide his pow'rs,<lb/>
                                And, make the strength hee gives, appeare as ours.<lb/>
                                Continue, Lord, this Grace, and grant wee may,<lb/>
                                Firme hold, on our Supporter, alwayes lay:<lb/>
                                So climbing, that wee nor neglect, nor hide<lb/>
                                His Love ; nor over-climbe it, by our Pride.<lb/>
                                Thus, our yet staggering weaknesse, shall at length,<lb/>
                                Bee fully changed into perfect Strength.<lb/>
                            </p>
                        
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TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
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IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
CAPTION_EN A vine supported by an obelisk; in the background (left) Christ and a woman with a nimbus (Ecclesia?) next to an altar with a heart(?) from which blood(?) is spouting, irrigating a small garden, and (right) Christ and a woman holding a book, seated in front of a bed
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1903.xml
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1903_fac222
MOTTO_LA <p>TE STANTE VIREBO.</p>
                        
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 11D3
; 11P11
; 11Q7141
; 25G3(PALM-TREE)
; 25G4(IVY)(+39)
; 31A22210
; 41A23(+0)
; 41A542
; 41A642
; 41A761
; 86(TE STANTE VIREBO)
MOTTO_EN <p>Though weaknesse unto mee belong,<lb/>
                                In my Supporter, I am strong.</p>
                        
URL_IMAGE embstma_1903_pic222.jpg
ID embstma_1903_emblem168
MOTTO_LA_NORM Te stante virebo
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0