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$ . v « r the silver mountains , Where Spring the nectar fountains ; There will I kiss The bowl of bliss , And drink mine everlasting fill
p *| every milky hill . "Ply ^ pul will be a-di y before , But after , it will thirst no more . Vll tafce them first { ; To , quench my thirsty . . And taste of nectar-suckets
At those clear wells AjVhcre sweetness dwells , Drawn up by saints in chrystal buckets . Then by-that bappy biestful day More peaceful pilgrims I shall see , That have cast off their rags of clay , And walk , apparell'd fresh , like me *
And when ov r bottles , and all we Ar * fiffd with immortality ; * Then the blessed parts we'll travel , Strow'd with rubies thick as gravel : Scalings of diamonds , sapphire flowers ,
High coral walls , and pearly bowers . From thence to heaven ' s bribeless hall , Where no corrupted voices brawl ; No conscience molten into gold ; No forgMiaccuser ^ bought or sold ; . Ho cause deferr'd ; no vain-spent journey ; ¦ ¦ - . ;• ?• . ¦¦ x For there Christ is the king ' s attorney ,
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OBITUARY .
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x . 8 xo April IX , of a fever , oh board the Walthamstow , East Iridiaman , on fii& return from Bengal , in the sist year of bis s # e > Mr , JOHN TC V ILL RUTT . . juru eldest son
Hy' —apd all tbtU he made alive . K . 1810 , May 18 / aged ! 75 yearsi at Dover , Mr . JOKft IOGI . KSDBN . He was a' niUiTe ^ f Teuterden , where he was lirb ^ ht ti ^ in agricultural cmploy - meot ; " wIm ^ xti ycai * s of age , H ^ e went to s « a and UcComing the master of a Vcss ^ r , . hriVmtle ieveral voyages to the tJiiitcd ' Sttiiei In the course bf this
**^ Idrme « t , he \ jfaa three timps nearly 4 ^ VrJtc 4 r being taken tXP each tiirie in U Hpm probability dead - The last Hitu ^ teoT his cscat > e and rtcovcif was
so extraordinary ; and impressed his minti with s ^ iich a sense of an overruling Providence , that he used to observe the aiiniversary of that day as a day of fasting and pious thanksgiving until the last year of his life , He quitted the flea in the year 1770 , when he came to Dover ; and having engaged a share in Ae bath * ingmachine ^ andherringflrfiory , hottnitedt
himself to the General Baptiit Society me ' etin ^ in that townr . Irt the year r > 8 xf he was chosen a deacon of that cdngregation . His character as a member of society was truly eremplary , bekig well lenown in the town and neighbourhood . He waaf so universally respected ^ that eveh ^ eiivy ai * d ill-iiaturer w&ec acarcely known to lift up an arm against him .
Mr . I . had lor some years retired from business , and having a large family , all of whom were married and settled in the neighbourhood ^ he passed a great portion of his time in going from house to house to administer that counsel which l
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Who pleads for all without degrees , And lie hath angels , but no fees . And when the twelve grand million jurjr Of our sins , with direful fuTy ,
Gainst our souls black verdicts give , Christ pleads his death , and then we live *; Be thou my speaker , taintless pleader , Unblotted Mwyer , true proceeder : Thdti wouldst salvation , e ' en for alms , Not withi a bribed lawyer ' s palms .
And this is mrae eteriral plea , To mar that made heav ' n , earth and sea That since my flesh must die so soon , And want a head to dine next noon , Just at the stroke wheri my veins start
and spread , Set on my soul an everlasting head . Then am I ready ^ like a palmer fit , To tfead those paths of which before I writ .
Of death and judgment , heav e n and hell ; Who ofi doth think , must needs die well . The man , who , witfr eternity just before him , could write in this manner , was , by his enemies and persecutors ^ ameist
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1810, page 361, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2406/page/41/
