De vita et morte Roberti Rollok: Academiae Edinburgenae primarii, narrationes

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Typis Jac. Ballantyne, 1826 - Scotland - 84 pages
 

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Page 79 - ... sin by His precious blood, is ever held up for adoration as the only hope of the sinner. So intensely earnest was this evangelist that he was wont to begin so early as seven in the morning to preach about the Love of God on the Cross, thus illustrating what James Melville said of him in a sonnet : ' On Christ thy hart was haillie set and stayit, Of Christ thou ever thocht, thou spak, and wryte, With Christ thou wissed all thy warkis arrayit, In Christ, in life and deid, was thy delyte.
Page 78 - UNTO THE TOWN AND Kirk of Edinburgh anent the departure of thair maist godlie, learned, and painfull Doctour and Pastour, M. ROBERT ROLLOK. SONNET I. Thy Divine Doctor deirest now is deid, Thy peirless Preicher now hes plaide his part : Thy painfull Pastor, quha in loue did leid Thy little Lambes, with sweet and tender hart, Hes dried his dayes, with sair and bitter smart, To purchase pleasand profit unto thee. His words, his warks, his wayes, his vertues...
Page 78 - LEARNED, AND PAINFULL DOCTOUR AND PASTOUR, M. ROBERT ROLLOK. SONNET I. THY Divine Doctor deirest now is deid, Thy peirles Preicher now hes plaide his part : Thy painful! Pastor, quha in love did leid Thy little Lambes, with sweit and tender hart, Hes dried his dayes, with fair and bitter smart, To purchase pleasand profit unto thee. His words, his warks, his wayes, his vertues gart Thee get this gaine of great felicitie. How thou suld live, and how that thou suld die In Jesus Christ, he hes in word...
Page 12 - Sic, enim, ego quidem de iis apud me statuo (quod absque ulla specie adulationis dictum velim) nihil adhuc legisse me in hoc interpretationis genere brevius simul, et tum elegantius, tum iudiciosius scriptum, ut ipse me, iis inspectis, continere nequiverim, nee etiam, opinor, debuerim, quin et Deo, de hoc utilissimo...
Page 28 - Buchananus enm impensè dilexerit, et Rollocus vicissim praeceptoris amorem ita compensavit, ut multis post annis, cum Academiae Edinburgenae praefectura fungeretur, nunquam eum Edinburgum pro re nata venientem passus sit extra domum suam hospitari, eique insignem illum commentarium in priorem ad Thessalonicenses Epistolam in testimonium gratitudinis dicarit.

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