Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)
Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 31. As it was a precept of antiquity, to leane more to vertue, then parentage: so is it a tenet of christianity, to repose more trust on the blood of christ, then our owne merits
VErtue, not blood was thought of anciently;
Yet blood, more then our vertue ought to please us:
For we on blood, not vertue should rely;
Not on our vertue: but the blood of Iesus,
His blood being able to make heavenly Kings;
Of men, plagu'd here for lacke of Earthly things.
Thomas Urquhart's other poems:- Epigrams. The First Booke. № 40. The duty of a husband to his wife
- Epigrams. The First Booke. № 16. How a man should oppose adversitie
- Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 40. Of wisedome, in speech, in action in reality, and reputation
- Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 43. That inconveniences ought to be regarded to before hand
- Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 29. How magnanimous a thing it is, in adversity, patiently to endure, what cannot bee evited
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