An Elegy On the Death of that most Laborious and Painful Minister of the Gospel Mr.John Norcot Who fell asleep in the Lord the 24th of this instant March 1671 [by Benjamin Keach] |
An Elegy On the Death of that most Laborious and Painful Minister of the Gospel Mr.John Norcot | ||
AN EPITAPH.
A sweet and godly Preacher doth lie here,Who did his Master Jesus love so dear,
And sinners Souls, that he his strength did spend.
And did thereby ('tis thought) hasten his end,
He brought himself by preaching to the Grave,
The precious souls of sinners for to save.
He lies but here asleep, he is not dead:
To God he lives, to Christ his soul is fled,
And o're while must he awake again,
And evermore with Christ in glory raign.
By B. K.
An Elegy On the Death of that most Laborious and Painful Minister of the Gospel Mr.John Norcot | ||