We doe acknowledge (as this _Emblem_ showes) That _Fruits_ and _Flowres_, and many _pleasant-things_, From out the _Ground_, in ev’ry season growes; And, that unto their _being_, helpe it brings. Yet, of it selfe, the _Ground_, we know is dull, And, but a _Willing-patient_, whereupon The _Sunne_, with Beames, and Vertues wonderfull, Prepareth, and effecteth, what is done. We, likewise, doe acknowledge, that our _eyes_ Indowed are with faculties of _Seeing_, And, with some other nat’rall _properties_, Which are as much our owne, as is our _Being_. However, till the _Sunne_ imparts his light, We finde, that we in _darkenesse_ doe remaine, Obscured in an everlasting night; And, boast our _Seeing-faculties_, in vaine. So, we, by nature, have some nat’rall powers: But, _Grace_, must those abilities of ours First move; and, guide them, still, in moving, thus, To worke with _God_, when _God_ shall worke on us: For, _God_ so workes, that, no man he procures Against his _nature_, ought to chuse, or shun: But, by his _holy-Spirit_, him allures; And, with sweet mildnesse, proveth ev’ry one. The _Sunne_ is faultlesse of it, when the birth Of some bad _Field_, is nothing else but _Weeds_: For, by the selfe-same _Sun-shine_, fruitfull Earth Beares pleasant Crops, and plentifully breeds. Thus, from our _selves_, our _Vices_ have increase, Our _Vertues_, from the _Sunne_ of _Righteousnesse_. _No =passage= can divert the =Course=, Of =Pegasus=, the =Muses= Horse._ [Illustration: RECTO CVRSV ILLVSTR. XLIII. _Book. 2_]