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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 202. 



those of Frelier, Iils great illustrator, (includ- 

 ing also the Emblems, &c. of Gichtel's German 

 edition), and preceded by those of Law, which 

 treat upon the same subject, namely: — 1. Answer 

 to Ploadley on the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. 

 2. Christian llegeneration. 3. Animadversions on 

 Dr. Trapp. 4.' The Appeal. 5. The Way to Di- 

 vine Knowledge. 6. The Spirit of Love. 7. Con- 

 ■futation of Warburton. 8. Letters. 



To conclude. The following are the terms in 

 which William Law speaks of Behraen's writings 

 in one of his letters : 



" Therein is opened the true ground of the un- 

 changeable distinction between God and Nature, making 

 all nature, whether temporal or eternal, its own proof 

 that it is not, cannot be, God, but purely and solely 

 the want of God ; and can be nothing else in itself but 

 a restless painful want, till a supernatural God mani- 

 fests himself in it. This is a doctrine which the learned 

 of all ages have known nothing of; not a book, ancient 

 or modern, in all our libraries, has so much as at- 

 tempted to open the ground of nature to show .its hirth 

 and state, and its essential unalterable distinction from 

 the one abyssal supernatural God ; and how all the 

 glories, powers, and perfections of the hidden, unap- 

 proachable God, have their wonderful manifestation in 

 nature and creature." 



And on another occasion : 



" In the Revelation made to this wonderful man, the 

 first beginning of all things in eternity is opened ; the 

 whole state, the rise, workings, and progress of all Nature 

 is revealed ; and every doctrine, mystery, and precept 

 of the Gospel is found, not to have sprung from any 

 arbitrary appointment, bat to have its eternal, unalterable 

 ground and reason in Nature. And God appears to 

 save us by the methods of the Gospel, because there 

 was no other possil)le way to save us in all the possi- 

 bility of Nature." 



And again : 



" Now, though the difference between God and 

 Nature has always been supposed and believed, yet the 

 true ground of such distinction, or the why, the liow, 

 and in what they are essentially different, and must be 

 so to all eternity, was to be found in no books, till the 

 goodness of God, in a way not less than that oi miracle, 

 made a poor illiterate man, in the simplicity of a child, 

 to open and relate the deep mysterious ground of all 

 things." 



Thus much upon the " reveries " of our " poor 

 possessed cobbler." It may be well to add, that 

 Freher's writings (in sequence to those of Law 

 above named) are all but essential for the proper 

 understanding of Behmen, especially of his descrip- 

 tions of the generation of Nature, as to its seve7i 

 properties, two co-eternal princl[)le3, and three 

 constituent parts : which is the deepest and most 

 difficult point of all others to apprehend rightly 

 (that is, with intellectual clearness, as well as 

 sensitively in our own spiritual regeneration), 



and indeed the key to every mystery of truth and 

 ^•^-^ J. Yeowell. 



life 



Hoxton 



INSCRIPTIONS ON BELLS. 



(Vol. vl., p. 554. ; Vol. vii., pp. 454. 633. ; 

 Vol. viii., p. 108.) 



Hirableton, Worcestershire : 



1. " Jesus be our GoD-speed. 1675." 



2. " All prayse and glory be to God for ever. 1675." 



3. " John Martin of Worcester, he made wee ; 



Be it known to all that do wee see. 1675." 



4. " All you that hear my roaring sound. 



Repent before you lie in ground. 1675." 



Ilanley Castle, Worcestershire : 



1. " Ring vs trve, 



We praise you. a.r. 1699." 



2. " God prosper all our benefactors, a.r. 1699." 



3. " God save y" King. 



Abr" Rudhall cast vs all. 1699." 



4. " God save y" King and y Chvrch. 1699." 



5. " Abr» Rudhall cast vs all. 1699." 



6. " Jas. Badger, minister. Rd. Ross, Gorle Chetle, 



C. W. 1699." 



From the ten bells of St. Thomas's Clmrch, 

 Dudley (rebuilt 1816), the following are the most 

 remarkable : 



5. " William, Viscount Dudley and Ward ; 



To doomsday may the name descend — 

 Dudley, and the poor man's friend."* 



6. " Ring and bid thee cry Georgius Rex III., Eng- 



land, thy Sovereign's name. Gon save the 

 King. T. Mean of London, 1818," 



Of the eight bells in St. Mary's Church, Kidder- 

 minster, the following are the inscriptions on the 

 first five : 



1 . " When you us ring 



We'll sweetly sing. 1754." 



2. " The gift of the Rt. Hon. Lord Foley. 1754." 



3. " Fear God and honour the King. 1754." 



4. " Peace and good neighbourhood. 1754." 



5. " Prosperity to this parish and trade. 1754." 



There is a small bell (dated 1780) which Is com- 

 monly called the " Ting-tang," and is rung for the 

 last five minutes before each service, which bears 

 the appropriate inscription : 



" Come away, 

 Make no delay." 



* The worthy nobleman's sobriquet must not be con- 

 founded with a popular ointment. 



