George Withers' Emblemes

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The Ground brings forth all needfull things
Butiftom the Sunnc, this a>ertuc firings.
Illvstr. XLII.
Book.
£E doe acknowledge (as this Emblem fhowes)
That Fruits and Flmres, and many feafmt-thirgs,
From out the Ground, in ev'ry feafon growes -
And, that unto their being, helpe it brings.
Yet, of it felfe, the Ground, we know is dull,
And, but a Witling-patient, whereupon
The Surrne, with Beames, and Vermes wonderfull,
Prepareth, and effecleth, what is done.
We, likewifc, doe acknowledge, that omejes
Indowed are with faculties of Seeing,
And, with fome other mt'rsll properties,
Which are as much our owne, as is our Being.
However>till the Sunne imparts his light,
We finde, that we in darhnejje doc remair.e,
Obfcured in an everlarting night ;
And, boa ft our Seeing-faculties, in vaine.
So, we,.by nature, have fome nat'rallpowers :
But, Grace, muft thofe abilities of ours
Firft move ;
and, guide them, frill, in moving, thus,
To worke with God, when GoddnW worke on us ••
For, GWfoworkes, that, no man he procures
Againft his nature,ought to cliHfe,or fliun
But, by his holy-Spirit, h\vc\ allures -,
And, with fweet mildneffe, proveth ev'ry one.
T:he Sunr.e is faultleffcof it, when the birth
Of fome bad Fteld,is nothing elfebut Wilis
For, by the fclfe-famc £//»_/£/«. fiuit full Earth
Beares pleafant Crops,and plentifully breeds.
Thus, from owx[elves, oi\\i"tc