Plutonian flowers. They breathe the odour of the pit, ftupifying to the fenfes. The bewitching mufic of the great enchanter cafts the foul into a deep fleep. It is like the fleep of the grave.

Perhaps he is dreaming of happiness that he will never enjoy; perhaps of home, that he shall never behold; or of friends, whom he shall embrace no more for ever. In the midst of his dreams of delight, the bow of the Almighty is ftrung; the arrow is made ready; the dart of death is uplifted, ready to fall upon the unconscious victim; the pit has opened its mouth to receive the prey. Nothing but the voice of God can aroufe him from his lethargy.

"What meaneft thou, O fleeper! arise and call upon God, if fo be that thou perish not. Awake, thou that fleepest; and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light."

"Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth; walk thou in the ways of thy heart, and in the fight of thy eyes. But know, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.'

“Ye fons of Adam, vain and young, Indulge your eyes, indulge your tongue; Taste the delights your fouls defire,

And give a loose to all your fire.

"Pursue the pleasures you design,

And cheer your hearts with fongs and wine;

Enjoy the day of mirth; but know,

There is a day of judgment too.

"God from on high beholds your thoughts,
His book records your fecret faults;
The works of darkness you have done,
Muft all appear before the fun.

"The duft returns to duft again;
The foul, in agonies of pain,
Afcends to God, not there to dwell,

But hears her doom, and finks to hell.”

"Where envying and ftrife is, there is confufion and every evil work."-JAMES iii. 16. "Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to ftand before envy?"-PROV.

XXX. II.

THE THREEFOLD DEMON, OR ENVY,
HATRED, AND MALICE.

Lo! where the threefold demon stalks along,
The work of defolation to prolong;
Envy, and hate, and malice, all combined,
To make afflictions, and torment mankind.
Forward the demon ftrides in fullen mood,
And chews a viper for her daily food;
Loaded with flanders, and with poifon ftrong,
She deals them largely to the gaping throng:
Her eyes are weak, and in diforder'd plight,
And hence a blinder to keep off the light.
To show that from without proceeds her pain,
She leans with anguifh on a thorny cane:
At others' excellence the pines, ftraightway
Hate brings her malice into active play;

Good name the tears, and scatters to the air
All other epithets of good and fair :
A fpotless character, wherever found,
With hate she tramples on the miry ground;
While in her train behold a tempeft rife,
That fwells and reaches to the topmost skies.

IN the engraving is reprefented a threefold demon ftriding forward, with fullen pace, in order to torment mankind. On her back fhe carries a pack of flanders, under her arm a quantity of poison thus fhe is thoroughly furnished for her hellish work. She is chewing the flesh of a viper, which, thus introduced in her system, poisons her heart's blood, and disorders her eyefight. In her left hand the grafps a thorny staff; this is to fhow that the torments herself voluntarily. She banquets on the deftruction of human happiness. See! how fhe tramples upon character, and scatters to the four winds the reputation of others. She leaves behind her, and following in her train, a gathering, blackening tempeft, furcharged with the "fire of hell," foon to burft upon mankind.

This emblem reprefents Envy, Hatred, and Malice, united in one perfon, and forming a being of extraordinary malignity. There are many fuch in human fhape-demons wearing the mask of human form, beings whofe eyes are pained at the fight of either excellence or happinefs, whose heart is corroded with the poifon of envious and malicious thoughts, felf-tormented with the thorns of their own creation-beings

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who never smile but at the tears of others, whose hellish joy consists in the wreck of human happiness, and whofe only mufic is the voice of lamentation and woe-beings of Satanic infpiration. They are always well furnished with flanders, and never want for opportunity to vent them. In this they copy after their great father, the prime enemy of man. When beholding the original happiness of the first human pair in the bowers of Eden, ere he effected their overthrow,

Afide the devil turn'd

For envy; yet with jealous leer malign

Eyed them afkance, and to himself thus 'plain'd,
Šight hateful, fight tormenting!'"

There is great propriety in representing the union of envy, hatred, and malice in one individual. Envy itself is defined to be "pain felt, and malignity conceived, at the fight of excellence or happiness." But when envy conceives, it brings forth hatred; and hatred, when it is finished, brings forth malice. We have a striking example of this union in the conduct of Joseph's brethren towards him. First "they envied him," probably on account of his fuperior excellence then "they hated him," in confequence of the partial conduct of Jacob their father; and finally in their malice "they fold him" for a slave.

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A ftill greater example occurs in the conduct of the Jews towards the bleffed Redeemer, in whom all excellences met, when "for envy they delivered him" into the hands of the Romans;