SNARE.
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me.—Psalm cxl. 5.
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.—Proverbs, xiii. 14.
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.—Proverbs, xxii. 24, 25.
Warn all creatures from thee
Henceforth, lest that too heavenly form pretended
To hellish falsehood snare them.
Milton.
In the embattled plain
Though Death exults and claps his raven wings,
Yet reigns he not, even there, so absolute,
So merciless, as in yon frantic scenes
Of midnight revel and tumultuous mirth,
Where, in the intoxicating draught concealed,
Or couched beneath the glance of lawless love,
He snares the simple youth, who, nought suspecting,
Meant to be blest—but finds himself undone.
Bishop Porteus.
Beset with snares on every hand,
In life’s uncertain path I stand;
Saviour divine! diffuse Thy light
To guide my doubtful footsteps right.
Doddridge.
He that hath made his refuge God,
Shall find a most secure abode;
Shall walk all day beneath His shade,
And there at night shall rest his head.
Then will I say, “My God, Thy pow’r
Shall be my fortress and my tow’r:
I, that am form’d of feeble dust,
Make Thine almighty arm my trust.”
Thrice happy man! thy Maker’s care
Shall keep thee from the fowler’s snare;
Satan, the fowler, who betrays
Unguarded souls a thousand ways.
Watts.