Pictures to sore eyes
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As painted pictures are to bleary eyes, poultices to the gout, or music to ears aching with gathered filth, so are riches to the sick and sorrowing man.
1771 text
Ut lippum pictæ tabulæ, fomenta podagrum, Auriculas citharæ collecta forde dolentes.
About this text
Rendered in modern English, to be read and heard. Open the 1771 text under each part to check the claims and the scripture.
Rendered in modern English. The 1771 panel is his own Pine printing of the Works. It is public domain.
Catalogue & scope
Sermon 28 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:19-23.
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