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An elegy on the much-to-be-deplored death of that never-to-be-forgotten person, the Reverend Nathanael Collins;…
An elegy on the much-to-be-deplored death of that never-to-be-forgotten person, the Reverend Nathanael Collins; who after he had been many years a faithful pastor to the church at Middletown of Connecticut in New-England, about the forty third year of his age expired; on 28th. 10. month 1684. : [Three lines of quotations in Latin]An elegy on the much-to-be-deplored death of that never-to-be-forgotten person, the Reverend Nathanael Collins; who after he had been many years a faithful pastor to the church at Middletown of Connecticut in New-England, about the forty third year of his age expired; on 28th. 10. moneth 1684. : [Three lines of quotations in Latin]
printed by Richard Pierce for Obadiah Gill, 1685
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FUNERAL-TEARS At the Grave of The much Desired And Lamented Mr. NATHANAEL COLLINS? Who changed Death for LIFE, December, 28. 1684.
FUNERAL-TEARS At the Grave of The much Desired And Lamented Mr. NATHANEEL COLLINS? Who changed Death for LIFE, December, 28. 1684.
—But shall he unobserved steal away? Or Israel not afford an hand to laya An Evil-boding Death to heart? no Son Of All the Prophets when Elijah's gone Look after him? Forbid this, Heaven! Shower On a bereaved Clod of Earth a power To yield a spire of grass bwhereon may grow The Name of COLLINS, help a verse to show His Virtues, as that Flock acknowledged Their Do cwhen to the Spicy Mountains fled. Assist me, thou who hast engaged the Just A Memory, dto whom the precious dust Of Saint Dissolved remains united!—
—But shall he unobserved steal away? Or Israel not afford an hand to laya An Evil-boding Death to heart? no Son Of All the Prophets when Elijah's gone Look after him? Forbid this, Heaven! Showr On a bereaved Clod of Earth a pow'r To yield a spire of grass