The Inscription made for Mr Remingtons Grave- Stone
Memoriæ & Virtutibus {Sacrum}
Honorabilis D.D. Jonathanis Remingtoni Armigeri Collegii Harvardini olim Alumni & per novennium Socij, et Tutoris fidelissimi, Qui exindè aliquot post Annos Munia in Republicâ multifaria sustinuit & egregiò ornavit; Integritate etenim mirâ, Omnibus perfunctus est, {Scilicet} Judicis in Justitiæ curiis, aliquoties omnibus, præcipuè autem
Et in Supremâ
Et Testament. probat.
plurimum eminuit
Sibique Judicis tum peritissimi tum integerrimi Nomen meritò acquisivit. Quinimo Sedem quum inter Consiliarios Massachusettenses per Annos aliquam multos impleverit Luce serenâ facileque discernanda refulsit. Præterea Indolem si VIRI. Facultates et Naturales exquiramus, in quibus horum insignium magis præpoluit, Intellectûs ne Perspicuitate Mentis Sagacitate Apprehensionis Celeritate, Judicij an Stabilitate Cordis aut Integritate, difficile dictu fuerit Modestia denique ejus præclara, se Animâ et humili et grandi præditum fuisse, haud dubiè indicavit
Quam optime paratam Cælo redidit.
Septembr. 30 Anno Christi MDCCXLV. / Ætatis. 69.
The Inscription made for Mr Remingtons GraveStone
Sacred to the Memory and Virtues of the Honorable Doctor of Divinity Jonathan Remington, Bearer of a coat of arms, one time Student and for nine years Fellow and most faithful Tutor of Harvard College, who leaving there after some years held and outstandingly adorned many different offices in the Republic, and what is more performed with wonderful integrity in all of them, namely Judge in the Courts of Law, at times in all of them, but especially he was most prominent in the Supreme Court and in the Court of Probate and deservedly won himself the name of a Judge of the highest skill and integrity. Moreover in holding his seat for quite a number of years on the Council of Massachusetts he shone with a serene and easily visible Light. If, going further, we were to seek out the character and natural abilities of the MAN, and ask in which of these eminent qualities he showed the more strength, whether in perspicuity of intellect, sagacity of mind, quickness of apprehension, in stability of judgment or integrity of heart, it would be hard to answer. In the end, his conspicuous modesty showed without a doubt that he had been endowed with a spirit both humble and lofty, which he returned most well prepared to heaven on September 30th in the year of Christ 1745, the 69th year of his life.
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