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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.
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† Escap'd, my Clay safe kept within a Grave Preserv'd lies for the Resurrection.
- †Mors Beatitudinis prinicipium, Laborum meta, peremptoria peccatorum, Aug.
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