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A96975 On the death of the Reverend Dr. John Goad. Wright, James, 1643-1713. 1689 (1689) Wing W3696A; ESTC R186885 566 1

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ON THE DEATH Of the REVEREND Dr. JOHN GOAD GOodness inspire me while I write of One Who was all Goodness but alas He 's gone How false a thing is Humane Life The Best Of Men are soonest sever'd from the rest 'T is Fatal to be Eminently Good Such die almost as soon as Understood Tho' He for whom we Mourn liv'd longer then The Prophet Limits to the most of Men Yet did his Days seem to all those who knew His many Vertues very short and few And one may safely say most of the Times He saw were Evil and Defam'd with Crimes Labour and Sorrow did His Age annoy Now chang'd to Bliss and everlasting Joy. Can We His Friends at such a Change complain True 't was Our Loss but His much greater Gain Fruitless if not unjust is all Complaint Happy are We that once we knew a SAINT A Christian truly Evangelical Of wondrous Charity and Love to all A right NATHANIEL in his Conversation Pious beyond the Standard of the Nation His Thoughts above the World which in respect To His own Conscience He did quite neglect His Science Universal Vast His Parts Ignorant only in Dishonest Arts. Which did excel may a nice Question be His Knowledge or His Life in Piety Learned yet Humble Grave yet Chearful too A happy Temper given but to few Such was the Venerable GOAD Let us Then immitate His Vertuous Life for thus We Honour most His Memory thus shew That We indeed that Holy Man did know And which of all advantages is best Thus we shall meet Him in Eternal Rest J. W.