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

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All chastisements for private use are giv'n;
The REVELATIONS PERSONAL of Heav'n:
But man in misery mistakes his road,
Sighs for lost joys and never turns to God.
Heav'n more that meets her child with sorrows try'd;
Her dove brings olive, e'er the waves subside. .
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Man gives but once, and grudges when we sue;
Heav'n makes old gifts the precedents for new.
 

Imitat. of Jesus Christ, L. I, C. 13.

“God causeth (afflictions) to come, either for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.” Job C. xxxvii, V. 13.

“It is the work and providence of God's secret counsel, that the days of the Elect should be troubled in their pilgrimage. This present life is the way to our eternal abode: God therefore in his secret wisdom afflicts our travel with continual trouble, lest the delights of our journey might take away the desire of our journey's end.” Sti. Greg. Mag.

“No servant of Christ is without affliction. If you expect to be free from persecution, you have not yet so much as begun to be a Christian.” St. August.

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

Imitat. of Christ, ibid. See also Gen C. viii, V. 11.

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