An elegy on the much-to-be-deplored death of that never-to-be-forgotten person, the Reverend Nathanael Collins;…

Name: An elegy on the much-to-be-deplored death of that never-to-be-forgotten person, the Reverend Nathanael Collins;…
Author: Cotton Mather

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]

Cotton Mather 1663–1728printed by Richard Pierce for Obadiah Gill, 1685

[4], 16, 18-20, [1] p. ; (8vo) · 3.2k words · Evans 392 · Wing M1100

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FUNERAL-TEARS At the Grave of The much Desired And Lamented Mr. NAT…: FUNERAL-TEARS At the Grave of The much Desired And Lamented Mr. NATHANAEL COLLINS? Who…FUNERAL-TEARS At the Grave of The much Desired And Lamented Mr. NAT…: FUNERAL-TEARS At the Grave of The much Desired And Lamented Mr. NATHANEEL COLLINS? Who…

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—But shall he unobserved steal away? Or Israel not afford an hand to lay^a 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 lay^a 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 ^bwhereon may grow The Name of COLLINS, help a verse to show His Vertues, as that Flock acknowledged Their Doe ^cwhen to the Spicy Mountains fled. Assist mee, thou who hast engag'd the Just A Memory, ^dto whom the precious dust Of Saint Dissolv'd remains united!—

aIsai. 57. 1.
ballusion to the poetical fancy of Ajax
cDorcas, Act. 9. 39.

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An elegy on the much-to-be-deplored death of that never-to-be-forgotten person, the Reverend Nathanael Collins;…

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