And let us glory in the cross of Christ now, that, when we shall see the sign of the Son of man in heaven,* and he himself coming in the clouds with power and great glory, attended with an innumerable host of angels, we may be esteemed worthy followers of the Lamb, and return with our victorious deliverer to the mansions of eternal bliss with this hymn of triumph in our mouths: "Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in." Sign of the Son of man, &c. “Crux Christi, quâ Christus in hoc mundo notus et celebris fuit, quæ Christum ad judicium venientem præcedet, tanquam' trophæum et insigne regium, quo de Diabolo et mundo triumphavit." Brugensis, &c. A sacred Ode to the memory of the Honourable and Reverend GEORGE TALBOT, D.D. a most eminent pattern of piety, virtue, and charity, who died at Barton, in Gloucestershire, November 19, 1785. — A translation nearly literal. רעב רעה ערום הלביש לב אלמנה מגיל הרנין: עינים הוא לעורים היה ולאלמים לשון שובב : לא באישים כבוד בקש כי פקודה מאן מאן : ברכת רשים מכל אוה כי בשמים קולם נשמע : בני עני דמע תרד - כי רע רעים המות לקח בנות אניה דדכן הכו כי מנחם בקבר שכב: ידום כינור ישבת חליל הקול שמחה לא עוד ישמע : ראשי אישים עפר יכסה מתני נשים השק יחגר: למה נספר כן לצדי הוא בשמי שמים עלה ביד ימין אל נא ישב: חדר הוא לכל חסידיו : He was a joint, if not the first, patron of the Gloucester Infirmary, + Once, at least, if not twice, he refused a bishopric, and had no other preferment besides, but attended the chapel of Barton, in Gloucestershire, which he fitted up in a very handsome manner, merely for the sake of doing duty. An Ode of Invocation on his Majesty's going to Cheltenham, to drink the waters, July, 1788. — A translation nearly literal. . This ode was presented to his Majesty at Cheltenham by Dr Halifax, then Bishop of Gloucester, and the author was invited by his lordship to attend at the palace with the rest of the clergy and the corporation of the city ; when the King, the Queen, the Princess Royal, Princess Augusta, and Princess Elizabeth, were received there in a public manner, and Mr Dimock had the honour of being presented to their Majesties by the bishop: and the late provost of Eton, Dr Roberts, informed him afterwards, that the translation of the ode was set to music and performed at Windsor Castle : and Dr Butler, then Bishop of Hereford, speaks thus of it: Dear Sir, Hereford, July 27, 1788. I return you many thanks for the favour of your ode, which I had just Hebrew enough to read with pleasure. I concur with you in the prayer of it, and wish it may leave an impression in your favour, where you would be as well pleased to make one as I should be to see the result of it. I am, with great regard, &c. An An address of thanks from the Church, to the Right Honourable the Lord Chancellor, on the promotion of Dr HORSLEY, now bishop of St David's, and Dr WHITE, professor of Arabic in Oxford. My gracious Lord! I come to thee, The tribute of my heart to pay; And here present, on bended knee, O chancellor! my joyful lay.* From earliest days, until this hour, The cruel Arab bent his bow+ Against the Lord's anointed one: Why should I fear his vaunting threat, Or, since I've advocates so great,|| Why dread the Arab's venom'd dart? * See Ezra, iv. 8. + Mahomet. . This alludes to Dr Priestley, who denies the divinity of our Saviour.. See Dr Horsley's letter to Dr Priestley, which is an unanswerable confutation of Dr Priestley's arguments in favour of Socinianism; and the same very able prelate has, in many other instances, signalised himself as the firm friend of the established church. The clergy of London in particular, whose livings are under the Fire-Act, are highly obliged to his lordship for his very powerful support of their petition for an increase of tithes, in the house of lords. See, also, Dr White's Bampton lectures. A |