{"id":531,"date":"2009-09-07T07:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T11:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=531"},"modified":"2013-06-20T15:17:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T19:17:46","slug":"elegy-for-john-gill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=531","title":{"rendered":"Elegy for John Gill"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I just recently discovered an elegy given for John Gill upon his death by Benjamin Francis. It is contained in Sprinkle Publications’ reprint of A Brief Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Late Rev. John Gill, D. D.<\/a>\"\", by John Rippon. I have included here two brief excerpts from this lengthy piece. Though we don’t speak in these forms today, we will have been faithful in our callings if our people can say these sorts of things about us one day. Seeing the result of ministries of the past helps us in aiming our efforts today. Let us give ourselves to our callings that we too might love our people, faithfully teaching and caring for them.<\/div>\n

“To part with thee,- our ever watchful guide,-
\nTo part with thee prompts our succeeding tears
\nExcites our sorrow, and our fear alarms.
\nNo more we see thy venerable face
\nIn sacred Zion, at her solemn feasts,
\nExciting pleasure, reverence and love.
\nNo more we hear they heart-reviving tongue,
\nTouch’d with a coal of bright celestial fire,
\nUnfold the wonders of redeeming grace!
\nNo more new streams of truth divine we taste,
\nFrom thy unwearied and exhaustless quill!
\nThy learned pen, incessantly employ\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d,
\nFor half an age, in they great Master’s cause,
\nThy hand has chang’d for never-fading palms;
\nAnd thy vast labours in the gospel field,
\nFor fifty-five revolving suns, receive
\nThe bright reward of an immortal crown.
\n…
\nSo glow’d thy bosom with the sacred fire
\nOf love supreme to thy redeeming God,
\nDivinely kindl’d in thy tender mind,
\nNor ought abated with advancing age:
\nHence thy loud praise for abounding grace,
\nThy deep concern for never-dying souls,
\nAnd tender feelings for each brother’s woe:
\nHence, for thy savior, thy unwearied zeal,
\nThy various labors, and incessant toil:
\nAnd hence, thy relish and supreme esteem
\nFor ev’ry stream of sacred truth, that flows
\nFrom revelation’s hallow’d spring, unmix’d
\nWith muddy error, and insipid forms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just recently discovered an elegy given for John Gill upon his death by Benjamin Francis. It is contained in Sprinkle Publications’ reprint of A Brief Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Late Rev. John Gill, D. D., by John Rippon. I have included here two brief excerpts from this lengthy piece. Though …<\/p>\n

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