WRIGHT - An account of his excellence - 1688 copia

24- Un d er the Arms, as in a large Plain, ter- minat ing i n a Pedeftal, were divers Figures, double the l i f e ; the firft o f which, reprefented the Chu r c h, i n a grave majeftick female Figure, cloathed i n white, gi rt about her; A tranfparent V e i l, and a G l o ry r ound her H e a d ; her feet naked, wi th Sandals; her upper Garment, a r i ch Mant le, embroider d wi th G o l d; in her r i ght hand (leaningupon an Ant i que Al tar, i nwhich, in Bafo Rilievo, was expreft, the Manna of o l d, f a l- l i ng upon the Ch i l dr en of Ifrael) {he he ld a P a- triarchal Staff, and extended the other, to r e- ceive Britannia. U p on the Al tar, l ay the Sacred Sc r i p- ture, on a Cufhion of Cr imf on Ve l v e t ; and befide i t, the figure of a Chu r ch, by whi ch f l ood, a ve- nerable, aged perfonage, wi th a flaming Lamp, i n his hand erected, reprefenting p i e t y; A nd u n- der the Churches feet , A Mu f t ,i in a pofture of rage, andde l pa i r; the A l co r an in his hand, ruf- fledi and t o r n ; and by h im, a vanquifht Bajfa, his