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<HEAD>ELEGIE <HI>On the univer&s;aly Lamented Death of</HI> Mr. ALEXANDER SCHEILLs: <HI>An Eminent Minister of the Go&s;pell, who Departed this Life at</HI> Jamaica, <HI>in his Return from CALEDONIA,</HI> 1700.</HEAD>
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<L>COme <HI>Mu&s;es</HI> nine, a&s;&s;i&s;t me to Lament</L>
<L>The lo&s;s of him, no danger could prevent,</L>
<L>From Carying on the Cau&s;e of Chr<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t his ma&s;ter</L>
<L>But Boldly did with&s;tand every di&s;a&s;ter,</L>
<L>Came in his way, and like to <HI>Noah</HI>'s Dove,</L>
<L>He for the Ark of God bear &s;uch a Love</L>
<L>That to the Sole of's foot he found no re&s;t</L>
<L>Untill he found, the Delege overpa&s;t.</L>
<L>Would I had <HI>Argus</HI> eyes that Floods of Tears</L>
<L>Might flow from thence to di&s;pell all our fears.</L>
<L>Heaven by this &s;trock, &s;eems our de&s;ignes to bla&s;t,</L>
<L>Since he is gone, whil'&s;t life and &s;trength did la&s;t,</L>
<L>All hazards venturd, Religion to premot</L>
<L>By's Life and Doctrine, where e're he &s;ooting got;</L>
<L>That Heathen Infidels did aln oft own</L>
<L>The Glorious Go&s;pel (by him) to them &s;hown,</L>
<L>To be more precious than all their <HI>Indian</HI> Gold,</L>
<L>As I have heard by Travelers often told.</L>
<L>Shall &s;uch an u&s;efull member of the Church</L>
<L>Fall by Deaths Dart and ne'r on heart &s;o much</L>
<L>As once be grived, nor any eye found weep</L>
<L>For lo&s;eing of a Shepherd of Chri&s;ts Sheep.</L>
<L>Who e're was faithfull in feeding of his Flocks</L>
<L>And notwith&s;tanding of what &s;tumbling Blocks</L>
<L>Stood in his way, He tenderly them Led</L>
<L>And with &s;incere milk of the Word them Fed,</L>
<L>Wherefore He now is with immortall Rayes,</L>
<L>Crown'd, in tho&s;e Man&s;ions where his Ma&s;ter &s;tayes.</L>
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