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Monumental Inscription . , Sis , READERS have different tastes * Minjeis perhaps peculiar : I take great and peculiar pleasure in perusing the lines of affection and sorrow
inscribed . on . tomb-stones . Of these inscriptions I have g , collection , and if voil shew your assent by the insertion of the present article , shall send some of the most interesting of them , from time to time , for the Monthly Repository . SEPULCHRALIS .
No . I . On a monument fixed to the South wall of Lambeth Church , at a little distance from the South-East door : Ne ^ r this place are the remains of William Bacon ,
of the Sak-Offi
pam ; Swjftas the lightning glanc'd his spirit flew , Aod bade this rough tempestuous world adieu . SUrt was his passage to that peaceful shore , * 1 » ere storms annoy and dangers threat no more .
No . II . On an altar-tomb of stone , at the south side of the East snd of Lambe Church Yard :
Here lyes what remains of Mrf . Ann Jefferibs . Whose maidea name was Heath . Ok May , 1735 . ^ « Once eat and yet genteel , handsome and a £ reeal > le , uweet in her manners , *** cent in her life , generous and obliging , sensible and discreet .
w fox worms , *»* domthed w ** ft * fefemitjr of tktft * rav t .
But , reader , don ' t think Such worth shall lye buried in oblivion . No—be assured she shall find What she ardently wish'd for , A happy immortality .
What though no costly urn preserves her dust , Nor hallowed walls support her marble bust , There is—from whom her form shaft ! never
part Till the last pang * shall tear it from his heart .
Newington Gree ? if May 1 , IB 15 . Sir , THE following article is the sub * stance of a Discourse delivered soon after the repeal of the penal
statutes which existed against Unitarians . If deemed worthy of insertion it may serve perhaps to keep the principles of dissent and the love of religious liberty awake in the minds of your readers . . I am ,
Yours truly , J . G . Christianity , though the best system of religion , has been treated as if it were the worst . The constituted authorities , civil and ecclesiastical .
were leagued together to put down the rising cause of the prince of peace ; employing such means as seemed most effectual to accomplish the purpose—reproaches , threateniiigs , prosecutions , fines , imprisonment , torture and death .
Hitherto Christianity , like virtue in adversity , appeared in its genuine purity and native excellence . So innocent , so mild , so graceful was she even in the sighs and tears which cruelty and oppression wrung from her , that many of her enemies fell in love with her beauty . While Christians were united in the bond of
charity they were mightier than their adversaries , though they only opposed mercy to cruelty , and mildness to violence Overcoming evil with good they mightily grew and prevailed . In the course of a few centuries , however , the strange phenomenon appeared , of Christianity turned
persecutor ; nay , of Christianity persecuting Christianity , which has continued to the present time . The cause of this unchristian conduct in pro * fessed Christians lies on the very surface of history . No sooner was ChristUnity endowed by Con&tantine ,, ea ~ Ubliahcd by law , allied to the » tafe
The Priest much touched by this « neech » awakened , and came to me to ieveal the miraculous vision , but l answered by assuring him that the Sofa Virgin had already said as much
to the King himself , who in tnaafcing l ^ liad promised , that on his return to Spain he would make her worship flourish over all the provinces subjected to his dominion .