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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31005	An elegy on the death of the Reverend Doctor John Goad late master of Merchant-taylors-school, London, who departed this life the 28th. of October, 1689 / by Joshua Barnes, B.D.	Barnes, Joshua, 1654-1712.	1689 (1689)	Wing B869; ESTC R40748	1,370	2

AN ELEGY On the DEATH of the REVEREND Doctor JOHN GOAD Late Master of MERCHANT TAYLORS-School London Who Departed this Life the 28th of October 1689. By Joshua Barnes B. D. CAN then a Father of our Israel die And none step forth to sound an Elegy No Son of all the Prophets bring a Verse T' Adorn the Holy Venerable Herse Not one of those whose All to him is due Who from his Cistern Sacred Waters drew Of those whose Oracles are now so sought Who at this Great Gamaliel's Feet were Taught Yet none is found to Offer at his Shrine But I And I but this poor Mite of mine 'T is all I may yet this I 'd rather do Than prove Forgetful and Ungrateful too Tho' small the Offering tho' but weak and faint Great the Devotion is more Great the Saint Hail Sacred Manes Once a Foyl to Vice Now a fair Scyon set in Paradice There Happy Thou Eternal Joys dost find But We unhappy whom Thou 'st left behind Unhappy We depriv'd of Strength and Head Our Chariot and our Horses hence are fled And Vertu 's in Despair now GOAD is Dead GOAD's Loyalty in * Egyptian Pharian Darkness shin'd Nor could State-Tempests shake his Constant Mind Th' OXONIAN * St. John Baptist's Colledge Oxon. Baptist gave him all his Store Of Learning yet from him received more Fair Flocks of Chosen Youth whose Rip'ning Years Took Happy Culture from his Tutoring Cares Nor doth the GRANTIAN Muse less Glory owe To Heads whose Seeds of Wisdom GOAD did Sow Long since Fair Isis and the Goodly Came Bemoan'd their Loss when they were told by Fame What Envious Fate remov'd him from the * Merchant Taylors-School c. Place Whence still he us'd to send a Learned Race That joyntly did both Came and Isis Grace Had they but us'd less Cruelty and Rage Secur'd his Quiet and sustain'd his Age That without Want he might have look'd for Fate Their Sin and Shame had not been then so Great But who can Fathom the Eternal Mind Or the deep Counsels of th' Almighty find Ev'n He whose Charity was Match'd by none Was now by Charity Her Self undone For surely he had heap'd up no small Store Had he but Liberally sustain'd the Poor But this Great Man Magnificently Brave Nought for his own Support but Hope would save Like * Alex. M. on his Expedition into Asia distributed all his Patrimony among his Friends saying he left Hope for himself Philip's Son The rest he freely gave Surely the Comforts of his Soul were Great And Vast the Bliss he gained after Fate For small Rewards of Charity he found On this side Heaven But sure his Faith is Crown'd With full Fruition now There Raptures flow There Plenty doth in full Abundance grow There endless boundless Joys his Soul Embrace And Bliss shines bright before th' Almighty's Face Go Blessed Saint enjoy that Peace above That Candid Spirit and that Strifeless Love Which thy Calm Soul foretasted here below And Griev'd and Sigh'd that all Men did not so Harmless thy Days blameless thy Life did pass Learning and Piety thy Pleasure was The Languages from thy Wise Lips did flow And Heaven 's High Secrets thy vast Mind did know Air Earth Seas Fire thy Wisdom did Define And Fates Dark Revolutions could Divine Yet he was Meek and Humble and Content Little suffic'd where Heavenly Things were meant Nought here he sought nor did his Hope lye here Upward he aim'd He 'd laid his Treasure there Learn hence base Worldlings That so doat on Dross What seems your Gain was unto him but Loss He laid aside the Heavy Golden Load Then flew to Heaven where now 's his blest Aboad Learn hence base Worldlings!-think on Glorious GOAD MEMENTO MORI LONDON Printed Anno Domini 1689.