BENJAMIN KENNICOTT, Parish-Clerk of Totnes,
and ELIZABETH his Wife:
The latter
an Example of every Christian Duty;
The former,
animated with the warmest Zeal,
regulated by the best good sense,
and both constantly exerted
for the Salvation of himself and others.
Reader!
Soon shalt thou die also;
and as a Candidate for Immortality
strike thy breast and say,
Let me live the life of the Righteous,
that my last end may be like his.
Trifling are the dates of Time
where the subject is Eternity.
Erected
by their Son, B. Kennicott, D. D.
Canon of Christ-Church, Oxford.
"It is said, that when Dr Kennicott had taken orders, he came to officiate in his clerical capacity in his native
Kermes native town. When his father as clerk proceeded to place the surplice on his shoulders, a struggle ensued between the modesty of the son and the honest pride of the parent, who insisted on paying that respect to his son which he had been accustomed to shew to other clergymen: to this filial obedience was obliged to submit. A circumstance is added, that his mother had often declared she should never be able to support the joy of hearing her son preach; and that on her attendance at the church for the first time, she was so overcome as to be taken out in a state of temporary insensibility."