The fables of young Æsop, with their morals with a moral history of his life and death, illustrated with forty curious cuts applicable to each fable.
Aesop., Harris, Benjamin, d. 1716?
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The MORAL.

IT's no difficult matter to Guess, who is meant by the Salamander, because ••ere is no Creature under the Sun, more like it, than an Atheist: For, sti∣fling all Convictions, his Conscience is Sear'd as with an Hot Iron; making his own shallow Reason his God; which being False, is utterly Uncapable to di∣rect him to search and find out the most True and Holy GOD, and Creator of Wisdom it Self; and so he Lives diving in the Fire of his own boundless, and foolish Imaginations. His hellish Zeal Obliging him to venture his All, on the Notion of Dying like a Beast; and yet not Suffer'd to Live a Life like it. Thus he spends his Youth like a witty Fool; his Man-hood worse than an unreasona∣ble Beast; and his Age (if Justice cut him not off) like a Devil incarnate.

Avoid then, the Society of such Mor∣tal immortal Devils, lest you are Infect∣ed by their Bituminous Poyson, and A∣theistical Conversation.

Ah, pity me! I do Believe, dread GOD;
Those who do not, Lord, Scourge them with thy Rod.)