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Justorum semita; or, the path of the just
Justorum semita or the path of the just Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 1662, does not appear. This is another instance of the failure of Mr. Wheatley's theory. To us the places where your ashes lie Shall be as altars, whence s... more »hall steadier rise Our prayers to heaven ; and that blest Sacrifice, Where God the Victim cometh down from high, Shall consecrate to holier mystery ; He here accepts your deaths as joined with His, Here builds all in one body, and supplies Our dying frames with immortality. And hence your graves become a tower of aid, A refuge from bad thoughts, a sacred shade ; Until, fresh clad with new and wondrous dowers, Our flesh shall join the angelic choirs, and be A living temple crowned with heavenly towers ; Where evermore the praises shall ascend Of the Great undivided One and Three, And God be all in all, world without end. Hymns from the Parisian Breviary, p. 267. JUNE 20. Translation of S. IStotoart, iltng an When the body of S. Edward had lain for a little time in its obscure grave at Werham, we have seen— March 18th—how honourably, it was distinguished by miracles. Queen Elfrida, whose ambition had been the cause of his death, could no longer resist the will of God, and gave orders that it should be translated with becoming reverence to Shaftesbury, anciently called Sceptonia. Elferius, duke of Mercia, was appointed to perform this duty. He had takenthe part of the secular clergy in the fierce disputes which they had with the monks, and had destroyed nearly all the monasteries which Ethelwold bishop of Winchester had built in Mercia. And within a year after the translation of S. Edward he came to a miserable end. In obedience to the orders of the queen, he took up the holy body, and carried it to the convent of the Benedictine nuns at Shaftesbury, where it was enshrined. Some histor...« less