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 59
e 800,000 pounds, and:fi]^ding he was Avorth only about 83,000, fearingwant, ended his life by poison. But the worldling heapeth up riches, and knowsnot loho will gather them. Cupidus, with great labor,accumulated a great estate, and dying, left liis wealthto his -two sons, Stultus and Effusio.… … If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up hitcross and follow me. Matt. xvi. 24. THE CROSS-BEARER. Dear reader, oer this sacred emblem pause,And view the Christian bearing up his cross;Nor steep ascent, nor roughness of the way,Eer makes liim halt, or turns his feet…
Christian art and symbolism · Emblems
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