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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51414	New-Englands memoriall, or, A brief relation of the most memorable and remarkable passages of the providence of God manifested to the planters of New-England in America with special reference to the first colony thereof, called New-Plimouth : as also a nomination of divers of the most eminent instruments deceased, both of church and common-wealth, improved in the first beginning and after-progress of sundry of the respective jurisdictions in those parts, in reference unto sundry exemplary passages of their lives, and the time of their death / published for use and benefit of present and future generations, by Nathaniel Morton ...	Morton, Nathaniel, 1613-1685.	1669 (1669)	Wing M2827; ESTC R16332	139,372	220

Law I made Bridl ' SEe how God honoured hath this Worthy's Name To make it spell his Virtue and proclame His rare Endowments us'd for God and Us Now such as honour God hee 'll honour thus Both Just and Gentle Merciful and Just And yet a Man and yet compos'd of Dust Yes God within these slender walls can finde A Noble Virtuous Studious Active Minde God was the Guider of his Childhood Youth God did preserve him ever in the Truth And gave him grace to own Him when but yong Whom afterward he made a Champion strong For to defend his People and his Cause By Wisdome Justice Prudence and by Laws And most of all by his own good Example A Patern fit to imitate most ample If we should trace him from the first we finde He flies his Country leaves his Friends behinde To follow God and to profess his Wayes And here encounters Hardships many dayes He is content with Moses if God please Renouncing Honour Profit Pleasure Ease To suffer Tossings and Unsettlements And if their Rage doth rise to Banishments He weighs it not so he may still preserve His Conscience clear and with Gods People serve Him freely ' cording to his minde and will If not in one place hee 'll go forward still If God have Work for him i' th' Ends of th' Earth Safe Danger Hunger Colds nor any Dearth A howling Wilderness nor Salvage men Discourage him hee 'll follow God agen And how God hath made him an Instrument To us of quiet Peace and Settlement I need not speak the eldest youngest know God honour'd him with greater Work then so To sum up all in this still he went hence This man was wholly God's His Recompence Remains beyond expression and he is Gone to possess it in Eternall Bliss Hee 's happy happy thrice unhappy we That still remain more Changes here to see Let 's not lament that God hath taken him From Troubles hence in Seas of Joyes to swim Let 's not lament his gracious Life is ended And he to Life of Glory is attended Nor let us grieve that now Gods Work is done In making him a happy blessed one But let 's bewail that we have so neglected Duty to God or men have disrespected With earnest Lamentations let 's lament And whiles we may let 's seriously Repent That we have not improved as we might For God and for our selves this worthy wight And now that God hath Moses ta'ne away Let 's pray that he would give us Joshua To go before the Camp and to subdue God's and his People's foes whatever Crew Oppose our Journeys to that Land of Rest Which till obtain'd we 're never truely blest And for our better progress in this course Let now our great Necessity enforce Each man to study Peace and to improve His greatest strength to re-unite in Love The Hearts and the Affections of us all Lest by our fault Gods Work to th'ground should fall W hy mourns the People thus for me since I I n Heavens dwell shall to Eternity L et not so many Tears fall from my Friends L ive holy happy God will recompense I nto your bosomes all your love again A nd your affections whiles I did remain M ongst you but now you must refrain B Ear up your hearts dear hearts when thoughts of me R un in your mindes with this The time will be A nd every hower brings it on apace D ear friends when we for ever shall imbrace F arewell but for a season then farewell O ur next Embraces shall the rest excell R est happy Children Friends and Tender Wife D eath but begins the godly's happy Life A few Verses more added by one that was well acquainted with the Worth of the said Mr. William Bradford THe Ninth of May about Nine of the Clock A precious one God out of Plimouth took Governour Bradford then expir'd his breath Was call'd away by force of cruel Death A man approv'd in Town in Church in Court Who so behav'd himself in godly sort For the full space of Thirty seven years As he was means of turning many fears Away from thee poor Plimouth where he spent The better part of time that God him lent Well skill'd he was in Regulating Laws So as by Law he could defend the Cause Of poor distressed Plaintiff when he brought His Case before him and for help besought Above all other men he loved those Who Gospel-truths most faithfully unclose Who were with Grace and Learning fully fraught Such as laboriously the Gospel taught Willing also to own in his due place The meanest Saint expressing gifts of grace Sweet Brewster he is gone some time before Wise Winslow whose death we lament so sore And faithful Standish freed from horrid pain To be with Christ in truth the greatest gain Now blessed holy Bradford a Successor Of blessed holy Bradford the Confessor Is gone to place of Rest with many more Of precious ones whom I might name great store And Commendation of each one have given But what needs that their Names are writ in Heaven And now dear Lord let us our time improve To be with thee in Prayer much above Oh save thy People help in time of need When all means fails be thou in room and stead Of other helps who fail when needed most When greatest need they then give up the ghost And let thy Servants their time still imploy That in the end they may attain such joy As may a fruit of true Believing bee That we with Christ may reign Eternallie This Worthy Gentleman was interred with the greatest solemnities that the Jurisdiction to which he belonged was in a capacity to perform many deep sighs as well as loud volleys of shot declaring that the People were no less sensible of their own loss who were surviving then mindful of the worth and honour of him that was deceased you might now easily discern a heavy heart in the mournful countenance of every sober minded and considerate man for as you have heard in the three or four Years last past God was pleased greatly to weaken this poor tottering Colony of Plimouth by taking away several of the most usefull Props thereof both in Church and Civil State some others who had been of singular use now stooping under the infirmities of old age could not be so serviceable as in times past and others removed so far from the center of the Government that they could not without great difficulties attend their publick concerns nor could possibly so constantly as our necessities required which did greatly aggravate our troubles we were become weak when we had need of greatest strength had lost many of our Chieftains when we stood in need of the best conduct and guidance for besides the troubles and changes that then attended our Native Country and might call for great circumspection in our walking in relation unto them we had also at this very time some amongst us that growing weary of