Abel redevivus or, The dead yet speaking. The Lives and Deaths of the Moderne Divines. Written by severall able and learned Men (whose names ye shall finde in the Epistle to the Reader.) And now digested into one Volumne, for the benefit and satisfaction of all those that desire to be acquainted with the Paths of Piety and Virtve [by Thomas Fuller] |
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The Life and Death of John Reinolds.
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The Life and Death of John Reinolds.
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[Between two Brethren civill warre and worse]
Between two Brethren civill warre and worse,The nice point of Religion long did nurse;
For reformation of the Faith he plyes;
That Faith should be reformed this denies.
The reasons of each cause a part propounded;
Both met alike, both fell alike confounded.
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As fate would have, each one his faith forsakes:
Without captiver both are captive led,
And to the vanguisht camp the victor fled;
What war is this, when conquer'd both are glad,
And either to have conquered other sad?
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[This minute is the last we can]
This minute is the last we canBehold this rare accomplisht man.
[Nor tongue, nor pen, nor Poets bayes]
Nor tongue, nor pen, nor Poets bayes,Can set forth his deserved praise.
[Come friends and lend your helpe, let's now inter]
Come friends and lend your helpe, let's now inter
Truths noble champion, and Romes conquerer.
And never let the best, the chiefest dare,
To wrong his ashes by a proud compare.
Truths noble champion, and Romes conquerer.
And never let the best, the chiefest dare,
To wrong his ashes by a proud compare.
Behold, in lesse then halfe a span,
The lovely modell of that Man,
Whose worth a world as big againe
Were all too little to containe,
That famous Reynolds; at the stroke
Of whose learn'd Quill, Romes sturdy Oke
Trembled; whom, had not early death
Prevented thus, his very breath
Had made such winde fals, round about
In Babels forrest, that no doubt,
In some few dayes, her savage Beasts
Had found no covert; nor her Uulters nests.
He was Times wonder, vertues story,
Truths champion, and the Churches glory.
The lovely modell of that Man,
Whose worth a world as big againe
Were all too little to containe,
That famous Reynolds; at the stroke
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Trembled; whom, had not early death
Prevented thus, his very breath
Had made such winde fals, round about
In Babels forrest, that no doubt,
In some few dayes, her savage Beasts
Had found no covert; nor her Uulters nests.
He was Times wonder, vertues story,
Truths champion, and the Churches glory.
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