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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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Thus was he for a Christian, and thus he With Conversation lightened, every Deed Of his in print a Sermon yieldeth me:‖ But now what as a Minister you'll heed.
Thus was he for a Christian, and thus he With Conversation lightned, every Deed Of his in print a Sermon yeeldeth mee:‖ But now what as a Minister you'l heed.
- ‖Ille pius pastor, quo non prestantior unus, Qui faciendo docet, quae facienda docet.
Methinks I see how fraught the Pulpit was Of Grace, of Gravity, of Wisdom, when With most harmonious notes a Barnabas He now was, and a Boanerges then:
How deep his Sermons were, where Elephants Might take content, and yet withal how plain, Suited unto the leather Doublet's Wants. All in a near unimitable Strain:
How deep his Sermons were, where Elephants Might take content, and yet withal how plain, Suited unto the leather Dublet's Wants. All in a near unimitable Strain: