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

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A Sweet and Godly Preacher doth lie here,

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Who did his Master Jesus love so dear;

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And Sinners Souls, that he his strength did spend.

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And did thereby (tis thought) hasten his end,

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He brought himself by Preaching to the Grave,

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The Precious souls of Sinners for to save.

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He lies but here asleep, he is not dead:

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