The following is a copy of the inscriptions on the tomb: - On the Top. FOR THE RECEPTION OF THE BODY OF JOHN OLIVER, WHEN DECEASED BY THE WILL OF GOD. GRANTED BY WILLIAM WESTBROOK RICHARDSON, ESQ., 1766. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.- Cor., xiii. 22. The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ; that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. - On one Side. Why should my fancy any one offend, What's good or ill on it does not depend ? 'Tis at my own expense, except the land, A generous grant, on which my tomb doth stand. This is the only spot that I have chose, Wherein to take my lasting long repose; Here in the death my body lieth down, You'll say 'tis not in consecrated ground. I grant the same: but where'er shall we find The spot that e'er can purify the mind, Or to the body any lustre give ? This more depends on what a life we live: For when the trumpet shall begin to sound, 'T will not avail us where the body's found. Blessed are they, and all that may, Full in the Lord and Saviour die: Their bodies wait redemption's day, And sleep in peace where'er they lie. On one End. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom; but to keep his commandments is holiness to the Lord. [Figures of DEATH and TIME.] Death, why so fast ? pray stop your hand, And let my glass run out its sand: As neither death nor time will stay, Let us improve the present day. Why start you at that skeleton? 'T is your own picture that you shun. Alive, it did resemble thee, And thou, when dead, like it shall be. Though Death will have its will with fate, Yet still old Time prolongs the date, Till all the measure I shall fill of breath That is allotted me by fate. And when that's done, then Time and Death... [Last line illegible.]... On the other Side. IN MEMORY OF JOHN OLIVER, MILLER, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 22D APRIL, 1793, AGED 84 YEARS.
