The Amaranth Or, religious poems; consisting of fables, visions, emblems, etc. Adorned with copper-plates from the best masters [by Walter Harte] |
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In vain we argue, boast, elude, descant;—No man is honest that's afraid of want.
No blood of confessors that bosom warms ,
Which starts at hunger, as the worst of harms.
“Dost thou fear poverty? Christ calls the poor man blessed.— —Art thou afraid of labour? Pains are productive of a crown. —Art thou hungry? A true confidence in God fears no famine: —for the Supreme Governour of the world beholds thy warfare; and prepares for thee a crown of glory and everlasting rest.”— Hieron. in Epist.
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