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

The BEGGAR.

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O wretched Man that I am, who shall deliver me from the Body of this Death?

Romans vii. 24.

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

He that from hence to be releas’d, With Christ to live, desires, Despises Death, and to the Stars In Words like these aspires: Who from this mortal Body will Me wretched Man release; And snatch me Wretch! from this vile World, To Realms of purest Peace?