III.
“Christ as the believer’s surety has taken his sins upon Himself, and the believer
takes Christ’s righteousness, for Christ makes over all that
He has to the believer, who by faith looks upon it, and
makes use of it as his own, according to that express warrant,
All things are yours and ye are Christ’s.”
IV.
“Christ with bread and water is worth ten thousand worlds. Christ
with pain is better than the highest pleasures of sin. Christ
with all outward sufferings is matter of present and eternal joy.
Surely, these are the only happy people!
Reader, art thou one of them?”
The following epitaph is in the church of St. Anne’s, Blackfriars:—
In a vault beneath lies the mortal part of
The Rev. William Romaine, A.M.
Thirty years Rector of these United Parishes,
and forty-six years Lecturer of St. Dunstan’s-in-the West.
Raised up of God for an important work in His Church,
a scholar of extensive learning, a Christian of eminent piety,
a preacher of peculiar gifts and animation,
consecrating all his talents to the investigation of Sacred Truth,
during a ministry of mere than half a century,
he lived, conversed, and wrote, only to exalt the Saviour.
Mighty in the Scriptures, he ably defended, with eloquence and zeal, the
equal perfections of the Triune Jehovah, exhibited in man’s redemption,
The Father’s everlasting love,
the Atonement, Righteousness, and compleat Salvation of the Son,
the regenerating influence of the Eternal Spirit,
with the operations and enjoyments of a purifying faith.
When displaying these essential Doctrines of the Gospel
with a simplicity and fervour rarely united,
his enlivened countenance expressed the joy of his soul.
God owned the Truth,
and multitudes, raised from guilt and ruin to the hope of endless felicity,
became seals to his ministry,
the blessings and ornaments of society.
Having manifested the purity of his principles in his life
to the age of 81, July 26, 1795,
he departed in the Triumph of Faith, and entered into Glory.
The grateful inhabitants of these parishes, with other witnesses of these facts,
erected this monument.
Rev. Augustus Des Granges. — Mr. Des Granges “was descended from ancestors who were professors of the pure religion in France, and left their native country in order to preserve a good conscience.” He was a native of London where, and latterly at the Mission Seminary at Gosport, he was educated. In 1805 he went to Madras, which he left in order to found a Christian Mission at Vizagapatam along with Mr. Cran. The two missionaries translated the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, into the Talinga or Gentoo language. For eighteen months after the death of his colleague Mr. Des Granges conducted that work alone. The two reverend though youthful evangelists had similarities and diversities which combined to form an admirable missionary staff. Mr. Des Granges died of a violent fever, on 12th July 1810, aged thirty, leaving a widow and two children. (See a Funeral Sermon entitled. The Voice of God to the Churches — a sermon on the death of Rev. George Cran, Augustus Des Granges, and Jonathan Brain, missionaries in India from the Missionary Society, preached at Gosport, March 17, 1811, by David Bogue.)
Rev. William Fonnereau. — This gentleman, whose name I have already recorded as proprietor of Christ Church Park, near Ipswich, was born in 1732, and educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he proceeded to the degree of LL.B. in 1753. A society was formed in 1772 at the Feathers’ Tavern, London, by many clergymen to petition parliament for the removal of all subscriptions to human formularies of religious faith, and one of the signatories was William Fonnereau, LL.B., of Christ Church, Ipswich. In 1773 he was presented by the Lord Chancellor
