"No; only he, who gave the blind their Sight, / Can fix interiour Eyes on heavenly Light"
— Adam [Adams], Jean (1710-1765)
Place of Publication
Glasgow
Publisher
Printed by James Duncan, in the Salt-Market, near Gibson's-Wynd
Date
1734
Metaphor
"No; only he, who gave the blind their Sight, / Can fix interiour Eyes on heavenly Light"
Metaphor in Context
Till now he never saw them without Spot,
The cleanest Thing in Nature has a Blot;
But now the Clogg of Nature's laid aside,
In Death he meets the never falling Bride.
Death is to them Lethe's forgetfull Stream,
There ly interr'd the black Remains of Sin.
Can our Invention fix the wandring Heart?
Or sp'ritual Wisdom to the Soul impart?
No; only he, who gave the blind their Sight,
Can fix interiour Eyes on heavenly Light.
No earthly Ore can make the Soul aspire,
Saints must be rich with Gold try'd in the Fire.
No humane Art could ere produce a Robe
To screen me from a Sin revenging GOD:
CHRIST's Righteousness must cover me from Sin,
And by his spotless Robe I enter in.
Thus is all Fulness in him centered,
In him the Wisdom's of the GOD-HEAD hid;
All we can love or wish to imitate,
Is lodg'd in him of either good or great.
(p. 4)
The cleanest Thing in Nature has a Blot;
But now the Clogg of Nature's laid aside,
In Death he meets the never falling Bride.
Death is to them Lethe's forgetfull Stream,
There ly interr'd the black Remains of Sin.
Can our Invention fix the wandring Heart?
Or sp'ritual Wisdom to the Soul impart?
No; only he, who gave the blind their Sight,
Can fix interiour Eyes on heavenly Light.
No earthly Ore can make the Soul aspire,
Saints must be rich with Gold try'd in the Fire.
No humane Art could ere produce a Robe
To screen me from a Sin revenging GOD:
CHRIST's Righteousness must cover me from Sin,
And by his spotless Robe I enter in.
Thus is all Fulness in him centered,
In him the Wisdom's of the GOD-HEAD hid;
All we can love or wish to imitate,
Is lodg'd in him of either good or great.
(p. 4)
Categories
Provenance
Browsing in ECCO
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1734).
See Jane Adams, Miscellany poems. By Mrs. Jane Adams in Crawfordsdyke. (Glasgow: Printed by James Duncan, in the Salt-Market, near Gibson's-Wynd, 1734). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
See Jane Adams, Miscellany poems. By Mrs. Jane Adams in Crawfordsdyke. (Glasgow: Printed by James Duncan, in the Salt-Market, near Gibson's-Wynd, 1734). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
Theme
Mind's Eye
Date of Entry
03/30/2010
