25 THE DEATH OF A SERVANT OF GOD. A Funeral Sermon, IN MEMORY OF THE LATE JOSEPH HARDCASTLE, ESQ. DELIVERED AT HANOVER CHAPEL, PECKHAM, MARCH 14, 1819 BY WILLIAM BENGO COLLYER, D.D. F.S. A. Member of the Academy of Scien of Dijon, &c. and Belles-Lettres, TO WHICH IS PREFIXED An Address delivered at the Interment, BY THE REV. JOHN TOWNSEND. 'Enrich'd with gracious truth, esteem'd, belov'd, But meekly round his ample circle mov'd, And grasp'd at usefulness, but shrunk from praise.' PUBLISHED AT THE REQUEST OF THE FAMILY. London: PRINTED BY JAMES POWELL, At the Manufactory for the Employment of the Deaf and Dumb, SOLD BY BLACK, KINGSBURY, PARBURY, AND ALLEN, LEADENHALL An Address DELIVERED AT THE INTERMENT OF JOSEPH HARDCASTLE, ESQ. IN THE Burial Ground of Bunhill Fields, MARCH 12, 1819. BY JOHN TOWNSEND. WHAT an interesting place is this! What an impressive and instructive scene presents itself to the eye in every direction! These graves and these tombs are the mansions of the dead: these stones exhibit the records of mortality: and the very ground on which we stand, is for the most part composed of the mouldering ashes of departed saints. Every object around us conspires to proclaim that most impressive declaration of the prophet Isaiah, All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field!" Of all the repositories for the dead with which I am acquainted, not one contains so precious a treasure as that in which we are assembled, and which is now to be still more enriched by the addition of the mortal remains of one of the most B |