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The Amaranth

Or, religious poems; consisting of fables, visions, emblems, etc. Adorned with copper-plates from the best masters [by Walter Harte]
Harte, Walter (1709-1774)

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CHRIST's PARABLE OF THE SOWER.
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THE ASCETIC,
  
CONTENTMENT, INDUSTRY, AND ACQUIESCENCE under the Divine Will:
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THE VISION OF DEATH.
  
THE COURTIER AND PRINCE:
  
THE ENCHANTED REGION:
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EULOGIUS:
  
MACARIUS:
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BOETIUS:
  
Religious Melancholy, AN EMBLEMATICAL ELEGY.
  
MEDITATIONS ON CHRIST's Death and Passion.

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25.

Perfect would be our nature and our joy
If man could ev'ry year one vice destroy .
Withdraw thee from the sins that most assail,
And labour where thy virtues least prevail.
 

Imitat. of Christ, L. I, C. 11. L. II, C. 23.

“Instead of standing still, going backward, or deviating, always add, always proceed: Not to advance, in some sense is to retire. It is better to creep in the right way than fly in the wrong way.” St. August. in Serm.

Imitat. of Christ, L. I, C. 25.

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