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

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For what is a Man profited, if he shall gain the whole World, and lose his own Soul?

Matthew xvi. 26.

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

If the destructive Art of Dice Could Wealth immense insure, Or Man the World by Dice could gain, What Good would it procure? His Soul this Practice will destroy, Entangled in its Snare, A Loss which no Art, Fraud, or Chance, Is able to repair.