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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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Afflictions have their use of ev'ry kind;
At once they humble, and exalt the mind:
The ferment of the soul by just degrees
Refines the true clear spirit from the lees.
Boast as we will, and argue as we can,
None ever knew the virtues of a man,
Except affliction sifts the flour from bran:
Say, is it much indignities to bear,
When God for thee thy nature deign'd to wear?
If slander vilifies the good man's name,
It hurts not; but prevents a future shame.
The censure and reproaches of mankind
Are the true christian Mentors of the mind.
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No other way humility is gain'd;
No other way vain-glory is restrain'd.
Nor worse, nor better we, if praise or blame
Lift or depress—The man is still the same.
The happy, if they're wise, must all things fear;
Nor need th'unhappy, if they're good, despair.
 

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

Ibid. Lib. I, C. 16. Lib. III, C. 12. See also Amos C. ix. V. 3, and Luke C. xxii, V. 31.

Imitat. of Christ, L. III, C. 5.

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