A Summons TO THE GRAVE OR. The Necessity of a Timely Preparation for DEATH. Demonstrated in a SERMON Preached at The FUNERAL of that most Eminent and Faithful Servant of Jesus Christ Mr. JOHN NORCOT.Who Departed this Life March 24. 1676By BENJAMIN KEACH, a Cordial and an unfeigned Lover of the Deceased.MIC. 7. 2. The good man is Perished out of the Earth.LONDON, Printed for Ben. Harris at the Stationers Arms in Sweethings Rents, near the Royal Exchange. 1676.Title page of A summons to the grave, or, The necessity of a timely preparation for death…, London, 1676A summons to the grave, or, The necessity of a timely preparation for death…Benjamin Keach, 1676

An ELEGY on the Death of that most Laborious and Painful Minister of the Gospel Mr. JOHN NORCOT, who fell asleep in the Lord the 24th of this instant March 1675-76.

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An ELEGY on the Death of that most Laborious and Painful Minister of the Gospel Mr. JOHN NORCOT, who fell asleep in the Lord the 24th of this instant March 1675-76.

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HOW doth my troubled Soul amused stand,

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On thoughts of God's most sore Chastising hand

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Let Heaven assist my Pen, and help indite

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This Mournful Elegy I'm moved to write.

This Mournful Elegy I'm mov'd to write.

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My grieved heart knows not what way to take,

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Its love to show and lamentation make.

Its love to shew and lamentation make.

An ELEGY on the Death of that most Laborious and Painful Minister of the Gospel Mr. JOHN NORCOT, who fell asleep in the Lord the 24th of this instant March 1675-76.

103 passagespart 1 of 3

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.

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An ELEGY on the Death of that most Laborious and Painful Minister of the Gospel Mr. JOHN NORCOT, who fell asleep in the Lord the 24th of this instant March 1675-76.

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HOW doth my troubled Soul amused stand,

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On thoughts of God's most sore Chastising hand

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Let Heaven assist my Pen, and help indite

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This Mournful Elegy I'm moved to write.

This Mournful Elegy I'm mov'd to write.

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My grieved heart knows not what way to take,

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Its love to show and lamentation make.

Its love to shew and lamentation make.

An ELEGY on the Death of that most Laborious and Painful Minister of the Gospel Mr. JOHN NORCOT, who fell asleep in the Lord the 24th of this instant March 1675-76.

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An ELEGY on the Death of that most Laborious and Painful Minister of the Gospel Mr. JOHN NORCOT, who fell asleep in the Lord the 24th of this instant March 1675-76.