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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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Thinking, what EPITAPH, I should Offer unto the Grave of this Worthy Man, I called unto Mind, the fittest in the World, which was directed for him, immediately upon his Death, by an Honourable Person, who still ⟨p. 46⟩Continues the same Lover, as well as Instance, of Learning and Virtue, that he was, when he Then advised them to give Mr. Wilson this EPITAPH.
Thinking, what EPITAPH, I should Offer unto the Grave of this Worthy Man, I call'd unto Mind, the fittest in the World, which was directed for him, immediately upon his Death, by an Honourable Person, who still ⟨p. 46⟩Continues the same Lover, as well as Instance, of Learning and Vertue, that he was, when he Then advised them to give Mr. Wilson this EPITAPH.
And now Abides FAITH, HOPE, & CHARITY,
And now Abides FAITH, HOPE, & CHARITIE,
But CHARITY'S the Greatest of the Three.
But CHARITIE'S the Greatest of the Three.