The life and funeral sermon of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Brand Dr. Samuel Annesley

V. A Catechist accomplished every way, Truth to Commend, as well as to display: A Master-builder, who could surely lay The right Foundation 'gainst a Trying day. Loose Truths, he knew less understood, soon lost; And Pulpit-Summaries too big for most: An oft Rehearsed Scheme they must retain; Well might conceive, what their own Words made plain: Hardly could doubt, what they were brought to prove;¹ Or from their undertaken Duty move; And least of all, when wrought into their Love: Persons he'd singly, Truths conjunctly Teach; Hearers should speak them; and the People Preach, Called, and Conducted to a sound Reply By Questions fitting each Capacity. And well he knew, under such gentle Rain, "The leaking Sieve must yet a Dew retain; "And Fruitless Trees a Leafy Verdure gain. He taught not Parrots, nor would whisper in Such sounds, as empty Heads should give again: Would sense by Words, convey with holy slight; Apt Words suggest by sense conveyed aright. Mind, Conscience, Will he'd throughly Catechize; Yet not Confess the Man; Each power surprise By Christian Wiles for Christ; with Holy Paul Would, to save some, become all things to all.

V. A Catechist accomplisht every way, Truth to Commend, as well as to display: A Master-builder, who could surely lay The right Foundation 'gainst a Trying day. Loose Truths, he knew less understood, soon lost; And Pulpit-Summaries too big for most: An oft Rehearsed Scheme they must retain; Well might conceive, what their own Words made plain: Hardly could doubt, what they were brought to prove;¹ Or from their undertaken Duty move; And least of all, when wrought into their Love: Persons he'd singly, Truths conjunctly Teach; Hearers should speak them; and the People Preach, Call'd, and Conducted to a sound Reply By Questions fitting each Capacity. And well he knew, under such gentle Rain, "The leaking Sieve must yet a Dew retain; "And Fruitless Trees a Leafie Verdure gain. He taught not Parrots, nor would whisper in Such sounds, as empty Heads should give agen: Would sence by Words, conveigh with holy slight; Apt Words suggest by sence conveigh'd aright. Mind, Conscience, Will he'd throughly Catechize; Yet not Confess the Man; Each power surprize By Christian Wiles for Christ; with Holy Paul Would, to save some, become all things to all.