A general volume of epitaphs, original and selected, and an historical and moral essay on the subject, by a clergyman [B. Richings]. |
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... Scriptures , namely , for Kings and Rulers , for Ministers of God's holy word and sacraments , for the Saints of this world , otherwise called the faithful ; to be short , for all men living , be they never so great enemies to xxvi ESSAY .
... Scriptures , namely , for Kings and Rulers , for Ministers of God's holy word and sacraments , for the Saints of this world , otherwise called the faithful ; to be short , for all men living , be they never so great enemies to xxvi ESSAY .
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... silence here impart , A lesson which should reach thy heart ; " That in the dust thou soon must rest , And none but saints with Christ are blest . " 17 . Why all this toil , for triumphs of INTRODUCTORY INSCRIPTIONS . 5.
... silence here impart , A lesson which should reach thy heart ; " That in the dust thou soon must rest , And none but saints with Christ are blest . " 17 . Why all this toil , for triumphs of INTRODUCTORY INSCRIPTIONS . 5.
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... , your everlasting theme . 68 . And hast THOU called me to resign What most I prized ? —it ne'er was mine ; I only yield Thee what was thine . * Or , Children we trace , & c . 69 . Yes , thou art gone , and saints INFANCY . 19.
... , your everlasting theme . 68 . And hast THOU called me to resign What most I prized ? —it ne'er was mine ; I only yield Thee what was thine . * Or , Children we trace , & c . 69 . Yes , thou art gone , and saints INFANCY . 19.
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Benjamin Richings. 69 . Yes , thou art gone , and saints a welcome sing , As thy blest spirit soars on angel's wings : Our blind affection might have wished thy stay ; The voice of God has called HIS child away ; Like Samuel , early in ...
Benjamin Richings. 69 . Yes , thou art gone , and saints a welcome sing , As thy blest spirit soars on angel's wings : Our blind affection might have wished thy stay ; The voice of God has called HIS child away ; Like Samuel , early in ...
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... saints he joins to cry " O grave where is thy victory . " 89 . Sweet babe ! from griefs and dangers , Rest here for ever free ; We leave thy dust with strangers , But oh we leave not thee . While that which is immortal , Fond hope doth ...
... saints he joins to cry " O grave where is thy victory . " 89 . Sweet babe ! from griefs and dangers , Rest here for ever free ; We leave thy dust with strangers , But oh we leave not thee . While that which is immortal , Fond hope doth ...
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Page 81 - As the winged arrow flies Speedily the mark to find ; As the lightning from the skies Darts, and leaves no trace behind ; Swiftly thus our fleeting days Bear us down life's rapid stream: Upward, Lord, our spirits raise, All below is but a dream.
Page xiv - Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden ; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid. There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day ; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
Page xxviii - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of the faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 151 - Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Page viii - And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt...
Page liv - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of" some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Page 19 - Oh ! when a Mother meets on high The Babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then, for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight...
Page 147 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : | yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Page 157 - Marvel not at this ; for the hour is coming, in which all that are in their graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth-; they that have done good to the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil to the resurrection of damnation,"
Page xxxv - ... bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife ; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife ; and there I buried Leah.