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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.
I fear of both sorts now [c]Mortalities, Of Famines too I fear the [d]worst, I fear The Gallop of no less Calamities Then can be wrapped in a pale Comets Hair
I fear of both sorts now [c]Mortalities, Of Famines too I fear the [d]worst, I fear The Gallop of no less Calamities Then can be wrap'd in a pale Comets Hair
- [c]Some have observed, that the Death of a faithful Minister in a place where he hath done God much service, is oft attended with a great Mortality among other persons in that place. •. Collins. Elijahs Lamenation. P. 18.
- [d]See Amos 8. 11.
Amidst these hideous Frights perplexed, I mourn With Incoherent Throbs you see. Now tell me Whether it be not just that thus forlorn I here bewail this that has late befell me.
Amidst these hidcons Frights perplext, I mourn With Incoharent Throbs you see. Now tell me Whether it be not just that thus forlorn I here bewail this that has late befel me.