<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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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

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<p>Though weaknesse unto mee belong,<lb/> In my Supporter, I am strong.</p>

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