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is that it was appointed by God , as what would be , besides the repentance of the sinner , a proper provision or preparation for forgiveness . I hope I shall not be thought to imply that any thing was wanting to g ive efficacy to repentance . Far from it ; buthewito forgives the penitent may certainly prescribe the temis and mode of reconciliation . T ^ iat 1 hav e advanced nothing in favour of thfc doctrine ot satisfaction by vicarious punishment ,
is , I trust , evident . To conclude , let me use this illustration : A father has many children , all of whom but one have joined in an act of disobedience ,
and , moreover , ill-treated the dutiful child for his singularity : they become sorry for their fault ; but the father prescribes , as the condition of forgiveness , that the dutiful child shall solicit pardon for the others .
If , Sir , you should favour these remarks with insertion , I hope shortly to send you a few more on the practical importance of these views T . F . B .
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Clapton , Sir , March 21 , 1822 . nPK ) such of your readers as amuse A themselves with conjectures on the imitations and resemblances discovered in the English poets , I beg leave to point out the probable original of that line in Pope ' s epitaph " On the Hon . Simon Harcourt : "
" Or gave , his father grief , but when he died . " Among the resemblances mentioned l > y Mr . Wakeneld , in his " Observations on Pope / ' ( p . 124 , ) is the following , which " Hackett ( II . 15 ) quotes from Montfaucon :
Lucia Julia Prisca , Vixit annis XXVI . Nihil unqudm pecccvit Nisi quod rnortua e $ t "
Mr . Wakefield also quotes , from an epitaph << on a stone in St . Mary Magdalen ' s , Bermondsey , 1694 , " this concludin g line :
" Who never disobey'd , but in her death /' Ihc whole epitaph , which rises ^ ove the sepulchra l doggrel of the 1 7 th century , was wr itten on a daughter vvho died " in the 11 th year of her
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age / ' as I find it in * ' A New View of London , " 1708 , p . 389 . It is , however , probable that a passage , which had not occurred to Mr , Wakefield , was Pope ' s original . It forms part of an epitaph " in the Church of Great Wyehingham , in Nefrfblk , " on Jane , the wife of Oliver Le Neve , who died in 1704 . She is said never to have grieved her husband or her friends , excfcpt by dyirig . * ' qu& viroy suisque omnibus , Non unquameraty nisijnoriendogravis "
I quote these lines from Le Neve ' s Monumenta L 4 nffliccma , ( p . 85 , ) published in 1717 , and probably well known to Pope in 1720 , when he wrote the epitaph on his friend Harcourt . In the same volume ( p . 68 ) is another epitaph worthy of being transcribed , as excelling the common
strain of such compositions . It also serves to shew , how even Christians , when under the pressure of the weightiest sorrows or mortality , are disposed , as if they credited " the fam'rf fields of Heathenish bliss , " to dwell with fond affection on the fancied
occupations of a supposed separate state , ( on which supposition there is , strictly speaking , no death , but an uninterrupted and improving life , ) instead of trusting , like Paul , that " the dead shall live , " because Jesus died and rose again . " In Clapham Church , near Bedford , in
memory of Ursula Taylor . c Vicina h&c tacitA . tumulantur urn& Ursula ; filiolae sacrae reliquiae : Dum vixit , Patris , format et indole Vera effigies .
Pthisis utrisque fuit fatalis . Lachrymas absterge bis vidua mater , Pat rein visit qui est cum Deo , Et plusquam 10 , 000 caelestium virgiuum Caetu divino splendet triumphans .
Obiit Martii 20 , 1703 , ^ Etat . 15 . These lines , which mi ^ ht have been written if the Christian doctrine of a resurrection had never been promulgated , may be thus literally translated : Near this silent urn are deposited
the dear remains of Ursula * a daughter who died in her tender age . While living , she was a fair resemblance of her father , in person and disposition . A consumption was fatal to both . Yet dry thy tears , twice-widowed mother ; for she now beholds her father , who is
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Pope 6 Imitation Epitaphs . 213
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1822, page 213, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2511/page/21/
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