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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03209	An elegy on the death of that learned, pious, and famous divine, Doctor John Ovven, who dyed the 24th. of August, 1683.		1683 (1683)	Wing E390; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.3[108]; ESTC R36104	1,190	1

AN ELEGY On the Death of that Learned Pious and Famous DIVINE Doctor JOHN OWEN Who Dyed the 24th of August 1683 22. Sept. 1683. How came't to pass that none did Silence break In all this time when they 'd such cause to speak Sad Hearts and Eyes cou'd only yet Lament A Loss so great Grief wou'd give Words no Vent Blame not Vnusual Sorrow when there fell This Rev'rend Father in our Israel Tho' Verse was silent there 's no doubt but those Who knew him well made Elegies in Prose And wrote 'em on their Hearts and we may think If writ elsewhere they us'd their Tears for Ink. When such a Pillar of the Church is taken Away we 've cause to fear the Fabrick's shaken And to deplore th' Eclipse of such a Light Whose Rayes Enliven'd Warm'd and Shin'd so Bright And well may apprehend some Ill to come When an Ambassador's Commanded Home Not that this Venerable Person 's Herse Needed at all the Ornament of Verse But this Resentment's paid as due by th' I aws Of Gratitude his Name 's above Applause H' has rais'd himself a Monument of his Own Which will out-last those of the hardest Stone His Fame will Live to lat'st Posterity In 's Theo Christo Pneumatology And various Volumes more where we may find How in 's Great Soul Rich Gifts and Grace were joyn'd His Learned Tongue which living did impart Its Message from his Own to th' Hearers Heart And taught those Truths whose Worth Excellence Were Felt before by 's own Experience Alas is Silenc'd now But 's Pious Pen Do's and will Preach to Multitudes of Men Such Sound and Weighty Doctrines do's unfold As are by th' Scripture-Touchstone prov'd true Gold Which like strong Rocks Shipwrack the false Opinions Of Atheists Papists Libertines Socinians This Skilful Architect built sure upon That Chief and Fundamental Corner-Stone And took great Care the Diff'rence to Descry Between true Grace and meer Morality Was none of those that only th' Outside Scour But to the Form of Piety joyn'd the Pow'r Not only Taught but Trod the Gospel-Path And both Defended and Adorn'd the Faith His Zealous Love to God his Son and Spirit From all true Christian Hearts Esteem did merit For those who joyn in That may well Dispense In smaller matters with some Difference Who can please All Sure too too few can tell Where we may find on Earth his Parallel Who Spoke and Wrote and Liv'd and Dy'd so well Many a Spiritual Orphan here Remains That owe their Birth to his Religious Pains And many more that have by him been Fed Instructed Helpt Rais'd Cur'd and Comforted who 'd cause to make his Herse with Tears to swim Had not their Loss prov'd so great Gain to Him That long had Travel'd in the Narrow Way And born the Heat and Burthen of the day We ought though to our Loss to yield that such Shou'd go to Rest who 've Born and Done so much And may we Learn of Him to Conquer Death Who when his Work was finish'd here beneath Lay down in Peace and as the Sun they say When 't sets serene foretels 't will shine next day So this Great Luminary's Lightsome Even Show'd with what Splendor he now Shines in Heaven HIS EPITAPH IN this Place Sleeps an Eminent DIVINE ONE who Religion made his Chief Design London Printed for Richard Janeway in Queens-Head-Alley in Pater-Noster-Row 1683.