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The high esteem which God hath of the death of his saints. As it…
The high esteem which God hath of the death of his saints. As it was delivered in a sermon preached October 7. 1683. Occasioned by the death of the Worshipful John Hull Esq: who deceased October 1, 1683. / By Samuel Willard teacher to a church in Boston. ; [Four lines of quotations]
printed by Samuel Green for Samuel Sewall, 1683
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Subsidio ingenti. Ah quanto Res-publica damno
Mulctatur! quantis haec tristia tempora damnis,
Rebus in angust•s mul•tantur! cum Deus ipse
Nostris infensus vitiis, hunc sustulit ad se,
Hunc justumque piumque piis Christoque fidelem;
Ut sit in aeternum, cum sanctis, incola coeli.