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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 right was his ARITHMETIC that knew Wisely to measure his own ‖days! How right Was his GEOMETRY, that found the true Bulk of the earth! a point **not worth the sight.
How right was his ARITHMETIC that knew Wisely to measure his own ‖dayes! How right Was his GEOMETRY, that found the true Bulk of the earth! a point **not worth the sight.
- ‖Psa. 90. 12.
- **and an invisible point no doubt would it be to an humane eye in the starry Heaven, tho it probably contains above Ten Thousand Millions of cubic German leagues.
In his ASTRONOMY how ripe his eye Reaching to things beyond the stars! Always Exact in this no-vain ¶¶PHILOSOPHY, That in all things he sound his Makers ‖ ‖praise. ⟨p. 8⟩Master of all the Arts that show us what Tis from each Bad unto each Good to go; To all his Knowledge last subjoining that,{right †} All that I know is, that I nothing know.