Memorials of Smarden, Kent

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Privately printed, 1886 - 329 Seiten
 

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Seite 216 - Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down : He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Seite 216 - WHY do we mourn departing friends, Or shake at death's alarms? 'Tis but the voice that Jesus sends, To call them to his arms.
Seite 131 - PASS a few swiftly fleeting years, And all that now in bodies live Shall quit, like me, the vale of tears, Their righteous sentence to receive. 2 But all, before they hence remove, May mansions for themselves prepare In that eternal house above ; \ And, O my God-, shall I be there ? DEATH AND RESURRECTION.
Seite 204 - Our friend is gone before To that celestial shore ; He hath left his mates behind, He hath all the storms outrode ; Found the rest we toil to find. Landed in the arms of God.
Seite 122 - German want of style as well as of its opposite) :Afflictions sore long time I bore, Physicians were in vain, Till God did please Death should me seize And ease me of my pain...
Seite 201 - The law against the Dissenters I should be glad to see repealed by the same authority that made it ; but while it is a law, the King cannot repeal it by proclamation : and I had much rather see the Dissenters suffer by the rigour of the law, though I suffer with them, than see all the laws of England trampled under the foot of the prerogative as in this example."1 The Court faction stood on its defence.
Seite 201 - ... shall be desired, in all parts of this our kingdom for the use of such as do not conform to the Church of England, to meet and assemble in order to their public worship and devotion, which places shall be open and free to all persons.
Seite 151 - Stop here, my friend, and cast an eye. As you are now, so once was I; As I am now, so you must be. Prepare for death and follow me.
Seite 161 - DEATH has been here, and borne away A brother from our side : Just in the morning of his day, As young as we he died. 2 We cannot tell who next may fall Beneath thy chastening rod ; One must be first, but let us all Prepare to me'et our God.
Seite 67 - (Argent) on a chevron (gules) between three owls (sable) as many lozenges ermine, on a chief (azure) three hazel branches (or),

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