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

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I will smite the Shepherd, and the Sheep of the Flock shall be scattered abroad.

Matthew xxvi. 31. Mark xiv. 27.

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

The Pastor, void of all Defence, My Pow’r, says Death, shall own; By me, his Mitre and his Staff, Shall to the Ground be thrown. His Sheep, their Pastor thus remov’d, By Death’s fell Pow’r, away, Shall be dispersed ev’ry one, To prowling Wolves a Prey.