She told them to give her up "to the Lord;" adding, "Whatever he does, is right." She asked them to rejoice with her that she was about to be removed from a world of sorrow and sin, to a world of light and purity. She prayed much for increasing holiness, and conformity to the will of God. She was recollected to the last, spoke much of her own happiness, and praised God for his mercy. Her last words were, "O what a glorious company, When saints and angels join!" Soon after, she closed her eyes, and slept in Christ. POETRY. PSALM LXXI. BY SIR ROBERT GRANT. W. EDWARDS. WITH years oppress'd, with sorrows worn, To thee my wither'd hands arise, Thy mercy heard my infant prayer; Thy goodness watch'd my ripening youth, O Saviour! has thy grace declined? A thousand ages pass thy sight, Then, even in age and grief, thy name Yes! broken, tuneless, still, O Lord, (Written at the Funeral of an Infant; the first Interment in the Wesleyan Burying-Ground, Market-Raisin.) THEY gather'd round an open grave, the funeral rite was said; 'Twas to lay an infant in its lone and lowly bed. Childhood and blooming youth were there, and manhood in his prime, And tottering age with bending head, all silvery with time: They had weather'd many a wintry blast, and scorching summer's day; Market-Raisin. London. R. Needham, Printer, Paternoster-Row. ARCHBISHOP ABBOT'S HOSPITAL, GUILDFORD. (With an Engraving.) DOCTOR GEORGE ABBOT, appointed to the archbishopric of Canterbury by King James the First, in 1611, was born at Guildford, the county-town of Surrey, October 29th, 1562, He received his earlier education in the free-school of his native town; and was sent to Oxford when sixteen years of age, when he became noted both as a student and a Divine; and in 1597 was elected Master of University College. His religious opinions appear to have been decidedly Calvinistic; but they were at the same time decidedly Protestant and evangelical. In this respect, a more perfect contrast can scarcely be conceived than that presented between himself and his successor in the primacy, the noted Archbishop Laud, who, while he embraced the opinions in which Arminius differed from the Dutch Calvinists, had embraced, likewise, those opinions the full growth of which, on the Continent, had constituted and formed the Papacy. In discipline, Archbishop Laud was no Papist: he would not have submitted to the dominion of the Roman Bishop: but in doctrine, there was far less difference between him and the Roman Catholics, than between him and the early Reformers, both continental and English. Abbot was the last Archbishop of Canterbury properly belonging to the school of the Reformers. He appears to have always retained a strong attachment to the place of his birth; and having no family himself, VOL. IV. Second Series. E |