Epitaph: To Butler's venerable memory

To Butler's venerable memory.
By private gratitude for public worth,
This monument is raised, here where twelve years
Meekly the blameless Prelate exercised
His pastoral charge ; and whither, though removed
A little while to Durham's wider See,
His mortal relics were conveyed to rest.
Born in dissent, and in the school of schism
Bred, be withstood the withering influence
Of that unwholesome nurture. To the Church,
In strength of mind mature and judgment clear,
A convert, in sincerity of heart
Seeking the truth, deliberately convinced,
And finding there the truth he sought, he came.
In honour must his high desert be held
While there is any virtue, any praise ;
For he it was whose gifted intellect
First apprehended, and developed first
The analogy connate, which in its course
And constitution Nature manifests
To the Creator's word and will divine ;
And in the depth of that great argument
trying his firm foundation, built thereon
Proofs never to be shaken of the truths
Reveal'd from Heaven in mercy to mankind ;
Allying thus Philosophy with Faith,
And finding in things seen and known the type
And evidence of those within the veil.