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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
How lofty in his RHETORIC, when with cries To the Omnipotent reduced to say¶ Let me alone, thereby he scaled the Skies, And with the old †Artillery got the day.
How lofty in his RHET'RIC, when with cryes To the Omnipotent reduc'd to say¶ Let me alone, thereby he scal'd the Skyes, And with the old †Artill'ry got the day.
- ¶as in Exod. 32. 10. feriendi licentiam petit a Mose qui fecit Mosen.
- †preces er lacrymoe sunt Arma Ecclesia.
In the best LOGIC, Oh how Rational! How able to spy Canaan through! how ready To baffle a Temptation! and withal Full of his Oracles sound, solid, steady!