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Lord Jesus Christ, the Alpha and Omega, the All in All of the new
testament: these give us not an adequate idea of him; though that
comes nearest where not terror, and fury, but majesty, power, wis-
dom and goodness, is bed expressed.
May thy idea ever dwell with me,
From Reafon, not from prejudice derived.
Enlarged, improved, and brightened more and more,
As oriental day, ferene, and fweet,
When spring, and fummer for the prize contend:
The richeft cordial for the heart ! a light
Discovering errors infinite labyrinths !
The ornament, and treafure os the foul!
Imperfect as it is.—-
A God incarnate, and Saviour of mankind by obedience and suf-
fering; a crucisied God risen from the dead: these are characters
that have something so sublime in them, that we must be contented
to own, our beloved Rafaelle has failed here, more especially in
some instances ; I do not mean in the carton of giving the keys, for
that I verily believe has received some injury, and is not now like
what Rafaelle made it. That incomparable hand that painted the
bistory of Cupid and Psyche, in the palace of Chigi at Rome, has
carried the fictitious deities of the heathens as high as possible, but
not beyond what should be conceived of them; as Michelangelo
Buonaroti (particularly in two or three drawings I have of him)
has made devils not such as low geniuses represent them, but like
those of Milton;
-His face
Deep fears of thunder had intrench'd, and care
Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows
Of dauntlefs courage, and confederate pride
Waiting revenge: Cruel his eye. -——
But
Lord Jesus Christ, the Alpha and Omega, the All in All of the new
testament: these give us not an adequate idea of him; though that
comes nearest where not terror, and fury, but majesty, power, wis-
dom and goodness, is bed expressed.
May thy idea ever dwell with me,
From Reafon, not from prejudice derived.
Enlarged, improved, and brightened more and more,
As oriental day, ferene, and fweet,
When spring, and fummer for the prize contend:
The richeft cordial for the heart ! a light
Discovering errors infinite labyrinths !
The ornament, and treafure os the foul!
Imperfect as it is.—-
A God incarnate, and Saviour of mankind by obedience and suf-
fering; a crucisied God risen from the dead: these are characters
that have something so sublime in them, that we must be contented
to own, our beloved Rafaelle has failed here, more especially in
some instances ; I do not mean in the carton of giving the keys, for
that I verily believe has received some injury, and is not now like
what Rafaelle made it. That incomparable hand that painted the
bistory of Cupid and Psyche, in the palace of Chigi at Rome, has
carried the fictitious deities of the heathens as high as possible, but
not beyond what should be conceived of them; as Michelangelo
Buonaroti (particularly in two or three drawings I have of him)
has made devils not such as low geniuses represent them, but like
those of Milton;
-His face
Deep fears of thunder had intrench'd, and care
Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows
Of dauntlefs courage, and confederate pride
Waiting revenge: Cruel his eye. -——
But