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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.
FOND Mortals, wipe your eyes (said he) pray That liquor for your selves. *poor Envy 'tis Which prompts your Threnodies for me. To weep For my sake, is but to Ignore my Bliss.
- *all. to Luk, 23 28.
O what a world of smoke of dust of Folly Am I sailed ‖from! No sin shall me annoy, And no Temptation more to be unholy Shall ever molest me in my Masters JOY.
O what a world of smoke of dust of Folly Am I sayl'd ‖from! No sin shall me annoy, And no Temptation more to be unholy Shall e'er molest me in my Masters JOY.
- ‖all. to Phil. 1. 23. where to depart, is by some translated to loose Anchor.
I have my Ragged Mantle dropped; I have All Vanity and all Vexation† Escaped, my Clay safe kept within a Grave Preserved lies for the Resurrection.
I have my Ragged Mantle dropt; I have All Vanity and all Vexation