CIS MISCELLANEOUS THOUGHTS. Or warm the cheek, and paint it gay; When death spreads o'er the face her frightful pale and cold ? 6. The same. in vain to search the verdant scenes, The shaded walks, the flow'ry greens, The trees of golden fruit, for what can ne'er be found : You search for bliss where 'twill not grow ; There is no paradise below, Since life's immortal tree is perish'd from the ground. 7. Ratio, fides, Charitas. " RECTA tldem ratio juvat : alma fides rationem : " Sed ratio atque fides nil sine amore juvant. Idem. " Et ratio fides est, & amica fides rationi : " At nihil ambo valent si mihi desit amor. LXX. Epitaphs. I, An Inscription on a Monumental Stone in Chessunt Church in Iertfordshire. In memory of Thomas Pickard, Esq; Citizen of London, who died suddenly, Jan. 29, A. D. 1719, Xt. 50. A SOUL prepar'd needs no delays, The summons come, the saint obeys : Swift was his flight, and short the road, He clos'd bis eyes, and saw his God. The flesh rests here till Jesus come, And claims the treasure from the tomb. T. On the Grave-stone of Mr. John May, a young Student in Divinity, who died after a lingering and painful Sickness, and was buried in Chestnut Chinch.. yard, inHertfordshire. So sleep the saints, and cease to groan, When sin and death bath done their worst, Christ bath a glory like his own, Which 'waits to clothe their waking dust. 3. Written for a Grave -stone of a near Relation. IN faith she died ; in dust she lies; But faith foresees that dust shall rise When Jesus calls, while hope assumes And boasts her joy among the tombs. Or thus. Beneath this stone death's prisoner lies ; The stone shall move, the prisoner rise, When Jesus with almighty word Calls his dead saints to meet their Lord. 4. To the pious memory of the Reverend Mr. Samuel Harvey of London, who died April 17, 1729. Æt. 30. " He was a person of a very low stature, but of an excellent spirit, adorned with all the graces of a minister anda Christian in a most uncommon degree. His " sickness was a slow fever; but while the disorder was upon him, he ven- " cured abroad, according to a promise made some time before, and his zeal exhausted all his spirits in pious and profitable conversation with some o, younger persons who greatly valued his ministry; Inafew days thedistem- " per prevailed beyond the power of medicine."
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