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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 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.
No Cross gshall ever gall my shoulders more, From God, correcting my disorders, and No Club ever strike me, red with ancient Gore, Still by each Cain hretained in his hand.
No Cross gshall ever gall my shoulders more, From God, correcting my disorders, and No Club e're strike me, red with ancient Gore, Still by each Cain hretained in his hand.
- gChrist & his Cross part at Heavens door, for there's no room for Crosses in Heaven. Ruther•. Epist.
- hCame adbuc clavus Abelis sanguine rubens ubique circumfertur. Bucholtz.