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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39129	An elegy on the death of the reverend and pious Mr. Thomas Wadsworth sometime preacher of the Gospel in Newington-Butts, and late of London, who departed this life the 29th of October, 1676.		1676 (1676)	Wing E401; ESTC R37788	1,226	1

AN ELEGY On the Death of the Reverend and Pious Mr. Thomas Wadsworth Sometime Preacher of the Gospel in Newington-Butts and late of London who departed this Life the 29th of October 1676. READER prepare thine eye for here 's a sight Can nothing less than floods of Tears invite Deep Waters come the stillest and the grief That 's greatest court the Eyes to give relief Come here you Stoicks let your Marble-eyes Swell big with grief and pay their due excise For here 's a Theam would make him shed good store Of Tears that never knew to weep before The Reverend Wadsworth lately dead What Eye But mourns the loss of so much Piety A loss indeed which ought for to produce A general grief in Men of any use And such a loss for which who will not spend A Tear 's not Learning nor Religions Friend Come all his Reverend Brethren mourn and weep Your Brother Wadsworth now is fallen asleep And you his serious Hearers now lament That Preachers Death whose life for you was spent Esteem it as a priviledg you have T' attend his precious Dust unto the Grave Then study well let that be all your strife His Exhortation to a holy Life Grief must Command your silence but impart In silent Tears the Language of your Heart By many Storms and Tempests now at last Our Wadsworth on a blessed shore is cast He 's blest indeed unto Eternity That preacht and liv'd souls Immortality And having reach'd that Harbor of delight It argues that he steer'd his course aright Now no afflicting pains can him come near Nor needs he Stone or Collick for to fear His heavenly Father who knows times best Call'd up his Soul on his own Day of rest Lament O Dead-mans-Place thy wretched case Thy Candlestick's remov'd out of its place Heaven has thought fit to give him a remove Thy shining light 's a fixed Star above Thus ere we dry our big-swell'd Eyes for One Tidings surprises that anothers gone So Reverend Wells and Pledger's snatcht away They followed Janeway and Vennings day Carmichel succeeds them but not long Ere that blest Soul was called up among The uncloath'd Saints to sing the heavenly Song And though he had an Elogy I 'le say He was a light that burned in his Day Methinks I hear them all o're-joyed to see Dear Wadsworth added to their Company Their company is sweet Heaven thinks it best To call such Saints to everlasting rest And you Star-gazing Tribe should you be blest To find a Star that 's brighter than the rest 'T is pious Wadsworth's Soul for all conclude He is a Star of the first Magnitude EPITAPH REader stand off and thy due distance keep For in this bed a Friend of Christ doth sleep His body here 's interred being Dead But his blest Soul to Abraham's bosom 's fled Heaven hath the Jewel Earth doth keep in trust For a short time the Reverend Wadsworth's Dust Vntil the Resurrection of the Just Secula vix referent quem tulit una dies London Printed for Dorman Newman at the Kings Arms in the Poultrey MDCLXXVI His serious Exhortation to a holy Life Written not long after his entrance on the ministry * His Book Intituled the Immortality of the Soul * Of which he had sore Fits * He dyed on the Lords day