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B03275 An elegy upon the death of two eminent ministers of the Gospel Mr. Pledger and Mr. Wells. Who both departed this life on the Lords day June the 18th. 1676. The first of them having preached twice, and administred the Lords Supper the very day of his dissolution. 1676 (1676) Wing E477; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.3[118]; ESTC R36181 1,745 1

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AN ELEGY Upon the DEATH of TWO Eminent Ministers of the Gospel Mr. PLEDGER and Mr. WELLS Who Both Departed this Life on the Lords Day June the 18th 1676. The First of them having Preached Twice and Administred the Lords Supper the very day of His Dissolution WHAT sudden stroke Commands an Elegy When all the Muses Sacred Wells are dry Now Tyrant-Sol destroys those Fruits of Earth Where to his milder Beams of late gave Birth When each Spring fears a Bankrupt to become And Murmuring Rivers their own Thirst bemoan When Parching Heats have brought that Woe to pass I 'le make your Earth as Iron your Heaven as Brass Hard as the Adamants Compacted Parts Or what are yet less soft our stubborn Hearts In such a Drought what Chymist can Extract That Quintessence of Tears our Griefs Exact For such a Loss Two Good-Men in one day By Deaths surprizing Hand thus snatch'd away Devouring Death Thy Sythe too sharp is grown Such Precious Flowers should not so soon be mown Forbear a little longer Spare oh spare Kill not by Couples Murther not a Pair Why Both What Doth th' All-consuming Tomb Desire Twins in its Insatiate Womb Or wouldst thou make a Miracle Appear Two Suns Eclipsed in one Hemisphere Look up their Life's above and see where stands Their vital Glass not emptied of its Sands But I in vain Intreat in vain Accuse What 's Heavens Will 't is sinful to refuse 'T is the just Doom of faln Humanity And not more Natural to be Born then dye And now let us Reflect what can be said By living Mortals of th' Immortal Dead May they not smile at the vain Tears we shed Sure 't is Prepost'rous we that stay behind In lingring Expectation of the Wind Should Grieve for those are past this Streight before And now have safely Reach'd the blissful Shore Thrice Happy Souls who are to Sail no more It is not then on their Behalfs we mourn But on our own That Lamentable storm Of Sighs and Groans whilst over-flowing Eys Dissolve their yielding Balls to Deluges And doleful Sobbings with Heart-breaking sound Wait their bewailed Bodies to the Ground All this does but Express the Love we bear And what we ought from their Remove to fear For 't is a Judgment when the Righteous part And Men are stupid not to lay 't to heart Ah Pious Souls which shall we first Admire Since Both were equal Lamps of Heavenly Fire Burning and Shining Lights whose Actions wrought On Hearts and Jointly with their Doctrines taught For well they know Religion did not dwell In Garbs or Phrases but in Living well Two Painful Labourers Pow'rful Preachers both Strangers to Covetousness Pride and Sloth No Out-side Men or zealous but in Talk But such as in one constant Orb did walk Of solid Piety whose Care was shown For their Flocks good as much as for their own And with unwearied Pains like Tapers Bright Consum'd themselves to Bless others with Light Would you see Heathen Chief-Good Christend and Ethicks serve under Sacred Writs Command Their School-points Justly now become our own Made Denizens in our Religion 'T was here and every Moral Virtue hence Chose a new Genus and new Difference They found those Humane Lustres had before But Twinckled in Raw Indigested Oar Dispers'd and Branch'd in Speculative Veins Through all the Southern School-mens Sun-Burnt Brains And therefore Coyn'd them into Practick pence Now Currant through all Marts of Conscience They did design still their Example Strives To Vest these in their Rights unto our Lives To Disei pline our Converse work us That Which Set fac'd Monks make but Religious Chat Nor know we how their Praises to Divide Who both beyond all-Praise Praise-Worthy Dy'd To 'th last in their Dear Masters work Imploy'd The Reverend Pledger Twice that day had Preach'd On which his Soul that Long'd for Haven Reach'd That Active Soul as Large a one as ere Submitted to Inform a Body here High as the place in Bliss he was to have Yet still as Low and Humble as his Grave Twice with his Lord that day he had Repast First Here But that not Satisfying's Tast For a Full Meal to Heaven wards did hast And being Spent not weary Sweetly Slept In those Almighty Arms so long had kept Him Safe That wondrous Glory to Declare Wherein he now Enjoys an End●●ss share Nor did good Wells less nobly quit the Stage From the Turmoils of an Ensnaring Age For with as much true Zeal and Piety He always Liv'd as other Saints do Dye Where like some Holy Sacrifice t' Expire A Feaver Burns him but Love Lights the Fire Go Happy Pair May your Immortal State Invite our Grosser Souls to Imitate I' th' Book of Life your Names Recorded stand Engraven by your Great Redeemers Hand Verses are Vain your Memory 's more safe For Cherubims shall Write your Epitaph Which in Mosaick Work with Diamonds Bright Is Drawn in Heaven and Read by its own Light FINIS LONDON Printed for B. H. 1676.