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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B071011.apex.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>AN ELEGIE OFFERED UP TO THE MEMORY Of that late faithfull Servant of GOD, Mr. JEREMIAH BVRROVGHS, Mini&s;ter of the Word at <HI>Giles Cripplegate</HI> and <HI>Stepney.</HI></HEAD>
<L>TO adde more a&s;hes to our mortall Store,</L>
<L><HI>Burroughs</HI> is follow'd now, tho&s;e gone before;</L>
<L>Vnconquer'd Death, that &s;pareth no degree;</L>
<L>But fetters all in his Captivity,</L>
<L>Hath &s;eized him, a &s;ervant of the Lord,</L>
<L>VVho preached IESVS, as he's in the VVord:</L>
<L>Set forth to all, he for them mercy hath,</L>
<L>If they upon him will depend their Faith:</L>
<L>The&s;e things (this Man of God) did to us preach,</L>
<L>And to us plainly Ie&s;us he did teach;</L>
<L>Declaring to us, he's the only way</L>
<L>For to be &s;aved, to him we mu&s;t pray,</L>
<L>If we would ever Heavens Gates enter in,</L>
<L>VVe mu&s;t leave all, we mu&s;t for&s;ake cut &s;inne,</L>
<L>On &s;uch good things he thought; the faithfull Preacher</L>
<L>Spent all his life for Chri&s;t, who was his Teacher,</L>
<L>For Chri&s;t our Saviour did alone him teach,</L>
<L>And none but Chri&s;t our Saviour would he Preach.</L>
<L>The world he &s;corn'd, though plenty of it having,</L>
<L>But at Gods hands for grace was daily craving;</L>
<L>Too ba&s;e it was, that he to it &s;hould bend,</L>
<L>Or to her Riches any credit lend;</L>
<L>For, what are Riches? But like a Po&s;t in's way,</L>
<L>Or, like a &s;pan, or like the flower in May:</L>
<L>So worldly honours unto him &s;eem'd ba&s;e,</L>
<L>To honour Chri&s;t that was his only grace:</L>
<L>For Chri&s;t alone he lov'd, &s;o lov'd to live</L>
<L>That he might alwayes prai&s;es to him give.</L>
<L>The grace of God was alwayes in his thoughts&punc;</L>
<L>The love of God, in &s;paring &s;uch foule faults</L>
<L>VVhich he committed daily in his &s;ight,</L>
<L>Yet from the Lord would never take his flight.</L>
<L>For Ie&s;us Chri&s;t was only his delight,</L>
<L>And Chri&s;t his Cro&s;&s;e was alwayes in his &s;ight,</L>
<L>Chri&s;t was his joy, he was his whole de&s;ire.</L>
<L>VVhat &s;hall I &s;ay? Chri&s;t did he love intire.</L>
<L>An happy end this godly man did make,</L>
<L>The world, her Riches from him he did &s;hake.</L>
<L><HI>Elijah</HI> like, his mantle left behind</L>
<L>For others to po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e, that they might find</L>
<L>A loving friend of him, and might confe&s;&s;e</L>
<L>That to his Neighbours all he was no le&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Then a <HI>Iohathan</HI> unto King <HI>David,</HI></L>
<L>For's love was fixt, fixt where he loved.</L>
<L>The truth of this, if you de&s;ire to know,</L>
<L>Doe you unto his Printed Sermons goe;</L>
<L>For they doe there unto the world declare,</L>
<L>VVhat was their ma&s;ters heart, what was his care</L>
<L>To tho&s;e that loved grace, and loved tho&s;e</L>
<L>That truly loved Chri&s;t, and him had cho&s;e.</L>
<L><HI>London</HI> afflicted in the face I &s;ee.</L>
<L>That &s;uch a man from us by Gods decree,</L>
<L>Should thus be &s;natch'd away, and from us part,</L>
<L>The thoughts of which might melt the harde&s;t heart;</L>
<L>For in this City, for him being decea&s;'t,</L>
<L>Thou&s;ands are mourners, and I not the lea&s;t&punc;</L>
<L>Yet mourn, why &s;hould we? Or, why &s;hould we weep,</L>
<L>VVhen <HI>Burroughs</HI> is not dead, but is a sleep&punc;</L>
<L>This man of God unto that glorious place,</L>
<L>A&s;cended is, ever to &s;ee Gods face.</L>
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<Q>Tendimus huc omnes, metam properamus ad unam, Omnia &s;ub leges mors vocat atra &s;uas.</Q>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Per me,</HI> I. C.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON.</HI></P>
<P>Printed by B. A. 1646.</P>
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