Religious Allegories: Being a Series of Emblematic Engravings, With Written Explanations ...
Religious Allegories: Being a Series of Emblematic Engravings, With Written Explanations ...
William Holmes, John Warner Barber
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To all its, votaries it promiseth the pleasures of this life.: But "the wages of sin is death." To all likewise it offers per- fect security; crying peace, safety, when sudden destruction is at hand. As sin is thus deceptive in its promises, and fatal in its results, so also is it in its influence on the human mind. It blu[|ds the eyes, it hardens the heart, it sears the conscience, it fascinates the ima- gination, it perverts the judgment, it gives a wrong bias to the will, it effaces from the... memory recol- lections of the beautiful and the good. In a word, it throws the pall of the grave over the whole man, and hides from his view, his guilt, his danger, and his immortality. The man is now wrapped in the mantle of " car^ nal security;^* he is insensible to all around him. The path of sinful pleasure is strewed with Pluto- nian flowers. They breathe the odor of the pit, stupifying to the senses. The bewitching music of the great enchanter, casts the soul into a deep sleep. It is like the sleep of the grave.
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