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 the use and benefit of present and
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 the use and benefit of present and future generations, by Nathaniel Morton, secretary to the court for the jurisdiction of New-Plimouth; [Six lines of Scripture texts]. . and Earth Were filled with our cries,The C loads were turned into drops of tears,The Mourning for t o lafi an Age of Tears IsTwere- all too little to Umem his death,Whofe life fo precious Was for Heaven and wijh*dhis day. might quite forgotten me,Which brought him forth this- Worlds light firf to fetrtO let not the day numbred berth Tear,Thattookthis Light out of our Hemifjyhen*A fatal day, a day of fad pre/ageTo us furvivers of this prefent Age ;The hour of thy deceafe when Sun went down,when light turnddar^, When heavens began to frownl9Tis ominous to us who faw his lighttThat Grace provoked fhould turn our day to night hAndGofpels light which fhineth from on high,Should clouded be, and darkled in our happy dayes, when fuch Lights pnne on Earth tO bitter dayes, when they are hid beneath)This is our grief, He which late fkind on highIs hid in grave, and now beneath doth Hartford figh, and fay, rveioftaTreafure^Let all New-England mourn at Gods Diffhafire, 128. New-Enghnds Memonali. An. 1647. In taking from us one more gracious,Then is the Gold of Ophir was the favour which his grace did give?It feafond fill the place where he did live:His Name did as an Ointment give its fmelf,And all bare witnefs that i
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