EMBLEM. 77. Verbum Dei odor ad salutem.
De Balsamo.
Ornatissimo viro D. Barwell præfecto, & socijs omnibus Collegij Christi Cantabrigiæ, totique; studiosorum cætui ibidem commorantium, qui omnes sacræ Theologiæ studio & professioni non tam statutis Collegii ad stricti, quam proposito suo devotisunt.
The same in English.
The precious baulme from Arabique land
To vs is brought and giuen in hand,
The picture is not here set downe,
To learned men it is scarse knowen:
Thou maist discerne by it force this ioyce
For greene woundes it is medecine choyce:
It cureth the falling disease,
From poysons bayne it doth release,
Preserueth bodies that are dead,
Help'th lepers, driueth ague from head:
For euery sore a plaister tried:
The word of God is thus signified,
It onely helpeth the wounded mind,
The trembling heart doth comfort finde,
It leprosie of sinne doth chace,
And poysonfull errours doth deface:
In dust it will not vs forsake,
In life and death we comfort take:
This word to all is soueraigne,
Wherein let vs our minds vp traine,
Marke, meditate, consider, reade,
In hand, in heart to stand in stead,
In health and sicknes it to digest,
So liue we in peace and dead shall rest.
