REPLY1850
LINES ON LONDON DISSENTING MINISTERS
By A. B. R. (Dukinfield)
In reply to one of the Queries of "W." (No. 24. p. 383.), I transcribe from the MSS. of Mr. Chewning Blackmore, a Presbyterian minister of Worcester, the "Lines on London Dissenting Ministers of a former Day," which I have never seen entire in print:— "Behold how Papal Wright with lordly pride Directs his haughty eye to either side, Gives forth his doctrine with imperious nod, And fraught with pride addresses e'en his God. "Not so the gentle Watts, in him we find The fairest pattern of a humble mind; In him the meekest, lowliest virtue dwells, As mild as light, as soft as ev'ning gales. "Tunin…
Topics: Dissenting Ministers, Religious Poetry, Anti-Calvinism, Historical Sermons