Religious allegories : being a series of emblematic engravings, with written explanations, miscellaneous observations, and religious reflections, designed to illustrate divine truth, in accordance with the cardinal principles of Christianity (1848)
Holmes, William, Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885 · New Haven, [Conn.] : John W. Barber ; New York : M. W. Dodd ; Boston : Crocker & Brewster · leaf 134
h divine, We look on things below,Honor, and gold, and sensual joy, How vain and dangerous too ! Honors a pufF of noisy breath ; Yet men expose their blood.And venture everlasting death, To gain that airy good. While others starve the nobler mind, And feed on shining dust.They rob the serpent of… … Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faithmade perfect ? James ii. 22. FAITH AND WORKS. Lo I where the Boatman stems the flowing tide, And aims direct his little bark to guide ; With both oars working, he can headway make, And leave the waters foaming in his wake; But if…
Christian art and symbolism · Emblems
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