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Corderius americanus. An essay upon the good education of children. And what may hopefully…
Corderius americanus. An essay upon the good education of children. And what may hopefully be attempted, for the hope of the flock. In a funeral sermon upon Mr. Ezekiel Cheever. The ancient and Honourable master of the Free-School in Boston. Who left off, but when mortality took him off, in August, 1708. the ninety fourth year of his age. : With an elegy and an epitaph upon him. / By one that was once a scholar to him. ; [One line epigram in Latin]
Boston: printed by John Allen for Nicholas Boone, 1708
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Sirs, Do you not Remember well the Times, When us he warned against our Youthful Crimes: What Honey dropped from our old Nestor's mouth When with his Counsels he Reformed our Youth: How much he did to make us Wise and Good; And with what Prayers, his work he did conclude. Concerned, that when from him we Learning had, It might not Armed Wickedness be made! The Sun shall first the Zodiac forsake, And Stones unto the Stars their Flight shall make▪ First shall the Summer bring large drifts of Snow, And beauteous Cherries in December grow; Ere of those Charges we Forgetful are Which we, O man of God, from thee did hear.
Syrs, Do you not Remember well the Times, When us he warn'd against our Youthful Crimes: What Honey dropt from our old Nestors mouth When with his Counsels he Reform'd our Youth: How much he did to make us Wise and Good; And with what Prayers, his work he did conclude. Concern'd, that when from him we Learning had, It might not Armed Wickedness be made! The Sun shall first the Zodiac forsake, And Stones unto the Stars their Flight shall make▪ First shall the Summer bring large dri•ts of Snow, And beauteous Cherries in December grow; E're of those Charges we Forget•ul are Which we, O man of God, from thee did hear.
Such Tutors to the Little Ones would be Such that in Flesh we should their Angels see, Ezekiel should not be the Name of such; We'd Agathangelus not think too much,
Who Served the School, the Church did not forget; But Thought, and Prayed, and often wept for it. Mighty in Prayer: How did he wield thee, Prayer! Thou Reversed Thunder CHRIST's-Sides-piercing Spear? Soaring we saw the Bird of Paradise; So Winged by Thee, for Flights beyond the Skies. How oft we saw him tread the Milky Way, Which to the Glorious Throne of Mercy lay!