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Emblems of Mortality; representing, in upwards of fifty cuts, death seizing all ranks and degrees of people

DEATH.

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The Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden to till the Ground, from whence he was taken.

Genesis iii. 23.

Illustration from Emblems of Mortality; representing, in upwards of fifty cuts, death seizing all ranks and degrees of people

Th’ Almighty Father did expel Man from his blessed Seat; And to sustain his Life decreed By his own proper Sweat: Then, first, into the empty World, Pale Death an Entrance gain’d; And the same Pow’r o’er mortal Men, Has ever since maintain’d.

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