Emblematic Illumination; or Forms, Colours and Emblems: Suitable for Illuminating Texts of Holy Scripture in Large Style, in Oils or Water-colours.
Religion
Emblematic Illumination; or Forms, Colours and Emblems: Suitable for Illuminating Texts of Holy Scripture in Large Style, in Oils or Water-colours.
Illumination of books and manuscripts; Initials
V With lilies,
"Add to your Faith, Virtue."--2 Pet. i. 5.
W[22] With trefoils,
"What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know
hereafter."--St. John, xiii. 7.
[22] The second half of this letter forms U.
Y[23] With the cross,
"Feed MY Sheep."--St. John, xxi. 16.
[23] This letter is given in reduced size, being most useful
together with the M; it will be found to correspond in height with
the alphabet of small letters, which are proportioned to any of
the foregoing emblematic capitals, excepting the G and T. The
pronouns MY and ME, when referring to the Deity, should always be
in capitals, the second of which may be of smaller dimensions.
_Conclusion._
In conclusion, I would suggest an answer to a question sometimes
asked--"What is the use of these scrolls?" The first most obvious
reply might be--to place on our walls. The questioner persists--"But
why?" Let your answer be in the sense of these words: I hope thus to
impress more strongly on my mind a particular promise or commandment
contained in the Holy Scriptures. I also hope that the same effect
may sometimes be produced on the hearts of others, who may often,
certainly, have read those words before, yet possibly without much
thought; having them thus brought suddenly and in a marked manner
before their eyes, deeper reflection may be the profitable result.
A commandment, an injunction from GOD's Word, thus placed before
me, may often, I trust, serve as a check in moments of temptation.
A promise I _know_ to be of inestimable comfort, as the sick
and the dying have testified. _No_ doubt the law of GOD must be
pre-eminently written in the _heart_,[24] must abide there as its
choicest treasure,--"a well of water springing up into eternal life,"
nourishing the soul at _all_ times; and we have the precious gift
of Him Who "bringeth all things to our remembrance."[25] Yet so
long as I have eyes through which I may receive holy impressions,
I cannot--dare not--despise the humblest means towards so good an
end. To look upon a text of Scripture, engraved with fair colours
and emblematic adornments, gives me the same feeling of elevating
happiness, through the organ of sight, that a melodiously chaunted
hymn or anthem conveys through the organ of hearing. "The hearing
ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them."[26]
[24] Cor. iii. 3.
[25] St. John. xiv. 26.
[26] Prov. xx. 12.
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