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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>AN ELEGY On the Death of that Learned, Pious, and Famous <HI>DIVINE,</HI> Doctor JOHN OWEN, Who Dyed <DATE>the 24th. of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> 1683</DATE></HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><ADD>22. Sept. 1683.</ADD></DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<LG>
<L>How came't to pa&s;s that none did Silence break,</L>
<L>In all this time, when they'd &s;uch cau&s;e to &s;peak?</L>
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<LG>
<L>Sad <HI>Hearts</HI> and <HI>Eyes</HI> cou'd only yet Lament</L>
<L>A <HI>Lo&s;s &s;o great; Grief</HI> wou'd give <HI>Words</HI> no Vent.</L>
<L>Blame not <HI>&V;nu&s;ual Sorrow</HI> when there fell</L>
<L>This <HI>Rev'rend Father</HI> in our <HI>I&s;rael;</HI></L>
<L>Tho' <HI>Ver&s;e</HI> was &s;ilent, there's no doubt but tho&s;e</L>
<L>Who knew him well, made <HI>Elegies</HI> in <HI>Pro&s;e:</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>wrote</HI> 'em on their <HI>Hearts;</HI> and we may think,</L>
<L>If writ el&s;ewhere, they us'd their <HI>Tears</HI> for <HI>Ink.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>When &s;uch a <HI>Pillar</HI> of the <HI>Church</HI> is taken</L>
<L>Away, we've cau&s;e to fear the <HI>Fabrick</HI>'s &s;haken;</L>
<L>And to deplore th' <HI>Eclip&s;e</HI> of &s;uch a <HI>Light,</HI></L>
<L>Who&s;e <HI>Rayes Enliven'd, Warm'd,</HI> and <HI>Shin'd &s;o Bright;</HI></L>
<L>And well may apprehend &s;ome <HI>Ill</HI> to come,</L>
<L>When an <HI>Amba&s;&s;ador</HI>'s Commanded <HI>Home.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>Not that this <HI>Venerable</HI> Per&s;on's <HI>Her&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>Needed (at all) the Ornament of <HI>Ver&s;e;</HI></L>
<L>But this Re&s;entment's paid, as <HI>due</HI> by th' I aws</L>
<L>Of <HI>Gratitude;</HI> his <HI>Name's</HI> above <HI>Applau&s;e.</HI></L>
<L>H' has rais'd him&s;elf a <HI>Monument</HI> of his <HI>Own,</HI></L>
<L>Which will out-la&s;t tho&s;e of the harde&s;t Stone.</L>
<L>His <HI>Fame</HI> will <HI>Live</HI> to lat'&s;t Po&s;terity,</L>
<L>In 's <HI>Theo&mdash;Christo&mdash;Pneumatology:</HI></L>
<L>And various <HI>Volumes</HI> more; where we may find</L>
<L>How in's <HI>Great Soul, Rich Gifts</HI> and <HI>Grace</HI> were <HI>joyn'd.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>His <HI>Learned Tongue</HI> (which (living) did impart,</L>
<L>Its Me&s;&s;age from his <HI>Own,</HI> to th' <HI>Hearers Heart;</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>taught</HI> tho&s;e <HI>Truths</HI> who&s;e <HI>Worth</HI> &amp; <HI>Excellence,</HI></L>
<L>Were <HI>Felt before,</HI> by's <HI>own Experience</HI>)</L>
<L>Alas, is <HI>Silenc'd</HI> now! But 's <HI>Pious Pen,</HI></L>
<L>Do's and will <HI>Preach</HI> to Multitudes of Men;</L>
<L>Such <HI>Sound</HI> and <HI>Weighty</HI> Doctrines do's unfold,</L>
<L>As are by th' <HI>Scripture-Touch&s;tone</HI> prov'd <HI>true Gold.</HI></L>
<L>Which like &s;trong <HI>Rocks, Shipwrack</HI> the <HI>fal&s;e Opinions</HI></L>
<L>Of <HI>Atheists, Papists, Libertines, Socinians.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This <HI>Skilful Architect</HI> built &s;ure upon</L>
<L>That <HI>Chief</HI> and <HI>Fundamental Corner-Stone;</HI></L>
<L>And took great Care the <HI>Diff'rence</HI> to De&s;cry,</L>
<L>Between true <HI>Grace,</HI> and meer <HI>Morality:</HI></L>
<L>Was none of tho&s;e that only th' <HI>Out&s;ide</HI> Scour,</L>
<L>But to the <HI>Form</HI> of Piety joyn'd the <HI>Pow'r:</HI></L>
<L>Not only Taught, but <HI>Trod</HI> the <HI>Go&s;pel-Path,</HI></L>
<L>And both <HI>Defended</HI> and <HI>Adorn'd</HI> the Faith.</L>
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<L>His <HI>Zealous Love</HI> to <HI>God,</HI> his <HI>Son,</HI> and <HI>Spirit,</HI></L>
<L>From all true <HI>Chri&s;tian Hearts,</HI> E&s;teem did merit:</L>
<L>For tho&s;e who <HI>joyn</HI> in <HI>That,</HI> may well <HI>Di&s;pen&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>In &s;maller matters with &s;ome Difference.</L>
<LG>
<L>Who can plea&s;e <HI>All?</HI> Sure too too <HI>few</HI> can tell</L>
<L>Where we may find (on Earth) his <HI>Parallel:</HI></L>
<L>Who <HI>Spoke</HI> and <HI>Wrote,</HI> and <HI>Liv'd</HI> and <HI>Dy'd</HI> &s;o <HI>well.</HI></L>
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</LG>
<LG>
<L>Many a <HI>Spiritual Orphan</HI> here Remains,</L>
<L>That owe their <HI>Birth</HI> to his Religious <HI>Pains;</HI></L>
<L>And many more that have by him been <HI>Fed,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In&s;tructed, Helpt, Rais'd, Cur'd</HI> and <HI>Comforted.</HI></L>
<L>Who'd cau&s;e to make his <HI>Her&s;e</HI> with <HI>Tears</HI> to <HI>&s;wim,</HI></L>
<L>Had not their <HI>Lo&s;s</HI> prov'd &s;o great <HI>Gain</HI> to <HI>Him;</HI></L>
<L>That long had <HI>Travel'd</HI> in the <HI>Narrow Way,</HI></L>
<L>And born the <HI>Heat</HI> and <HI>Burthen</HI> of the day.</L>
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<LG>
<L>We ought (though to our Lo&s;s,) to yield that &s;uch</L>
<L>Shou'd go to <HI>Re&s;t,</HI> who've <HI>Born</HI> and <HI>Done</HI> &s;o <HI>much:</HI></L>
<L>And may we Learn of <HI>Him</HI> to <HI>Conquer Death,</HI></L>
<L>Who when his <HI>Work</HI> was <HI>fini&s;h'd</HI> here beneath,</L>
<L>Lay down in Peace: and as the <HI>Sun</HI> (they &s;ay)</L>
<L>When't &s;ets <HI>&s;erene,</HI> foretels 'twill <HI>&s;hine</HI> next day:</L>
<L>So this <HI>Great Luminary's Light&s;ome Even,</HI></L>
<L>Show'd with what <HI>Splendor</HI> he now <HI>Shines</HI> in <HI>Heaven.</HI></L>
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<HEAD>HIS EPITAPH.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>I</HI>N this Place Sleeps an <HI>Eminent DIVINE:</HI></L>
<L><HI>O</HI>NE who <HI>Religion</HI> made his <HI>Chief De&s;ign.</HI></L>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Richard Janeway,</HI> in <HI>Queens-Head-Alley,</HI> in <HI>Pater-No&s;ter-Row.</HI> 1683.</P>
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