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Memoria Wilsoniana. Or, Some dues unto the memory of the truly Reverend & renowned…
Memoria Wilsoniana. Or, Some dues unto the memory of the truly Reverend & renowned Mr. John Wilson, the first Pastor of Boston: who expired August. 7. 1667. Aged, 79. Paid by Cotton Mather. ; [Two lines of Latin quotation]
Boston : Printed for and sold by Michael Perry, at his shop, under the west end of the Town-House, in Boston, in N.E., 1695
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But from the like Humility it was, That a Good kinsman, of his, who deserves to Live in the same Story, as he now Lives in the same Heaven with him, namely Mr. Edward Rawson, the Honoured Secretary of the Massachuset-Colony, could not by all his Entreaties persuade him, to let his Picture be drawn; but still refusing it, he would reply, What! Such a Poor, Vile Creature as I am! shall my Picture be drawn? I say, No; it never shall! And when that Gentleman introduced the Limner, with all things ready, Vehemently importuning him to gratify so far the Desires of his Friends, as to sit a while, for the taking of his Effigies, no Importunity ⟨p. 42⟩could ever obtain it from him. However, being bound in Justice to Employ my Hand, for the Memory of that Person, by whose Hand I was my self Baptised, I have made an Essay, to draw his Picture, by this Account of his Life; wherein if I have missed of doing to the Life, it might be made up, with several Expressive Passages, which I find in Elegies Written and Printed upon his Death: Whereof there were many Composed, by those, whose Opinion was well Signified by one of them: Sure Verseless he does Mean, to's Grave to Go, And well deserves, that now no Verse can show.
But from the like Humility it was, That a Good kinsman, of his, who deserves to Live in the same Story, as he now Lives in the same Heaven with him, namely Mr. Edward Rawson, the Honoured Secretary of the Massachuset-Colony, could not by all his Intreaties perswade him, to let his Picture be drawn; but still refusing it, he would reply, What! Such a Poor, Vile Creature as I am! shall my Picture be drawn? I say, No; it never shall! And when that Gentleman introduced the Limner, with all things ready, Vehemently importuning him to gratify so far the Desires of his Friends, as to sit a while, for the taking of his Effigies, no Importunity ⟨p. 42⟩could ever obtain it from him. However, being bound in Justice to Employ my Hand, for the Memory of that Person, by whose Hand I was my self Baptised, I have made an Essay, to draw his Picture, by this Account of his Life; wherein if I have missed of doing to the Life, it might be made up, with several Expressive Passages, which I find in Elegies Written and Printed upon his Death: Whereof there were many Composed, by those, whose Opinion was well Signified by one of them: Sure Verseless he does Mean, to's Grave to Go, And well deserves, that now no Verse can show.