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Winthropi justa. A sermon at the funeral of the Honourable John Winthrop Esq. late…
Winthropi justa. A sermon at the funeral of the Honourable John Winthrop Esq. late governor of the colony of Connecticut, in New-England; who died, at Boston, Nov. 27. 1707 and was honourably there interred on Decemb. 4. ensuing; in the 69th year of his age. : [Three lines of quotation in Latin]Winthropi justa. A sermon at the funeral of the Honourable John Winthrop Esq. late governour of the colony of Connecticut, in New-England; who died, at Boston, Nov. 27. 1707 and was honourably there interr'd on Decemb. 4. ensuing; in the 69th year of his age. : [Three lines of quotation in Latin]
printed by Timothy Green, 1708
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Mortality CONSIDERED. At the FUNERAL Of the Honourable John Winthrop Esq
••n. V. xi. — And he Died.
THIS is the End of all Men; And, Oh! that the Living may lay it unto his Heart!
Ecclesiastical History mentions a Person of Quality, who came into a Religious Assembly; a Place which it seems, he had ⟨image ?⟩not been much used unto; where the Minister happened then to be Reading, The Fifth Chapter of Genesis. — In the Reading, he observed the Clause, — And he Died, Eight or Nine times Repeated in i• And he Died! The Clause affected him, amazed him: This then, thinks he, will be said of All Men; It will be said of me too And he Died! God Sanctified the Though […]; It never left him, until it had made a Serious Christian of him. The Repetition of it is this Day to be carried on▪ God grant, that it may be with a Good and Great Effect upon this very Numerous Auditory!