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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[How happens it that this is Calvins share]
How happens it that this is Calvins share,
To lye under this little, unknowne pare?
Is not this he who living did appeare,
Decaying Romes continued dread and feare?
Whose death the godly doth with sorrow fill,
And at whose name the wicked tremble still?
Whose life was knowne to be so holy, cleare,
That vertue might have learn'd a lesson here?
To lye under this little, unknowne pare?
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Decaying Romes continued dread and feare?
Whose death the godly doth with sorrow fill,
And at whose name the wicked tremble still?
Whose life was knowne to be so holy, cleare,
That vertue might have learn'd a lesson here?
'Tis true, but know that humble modesty,
Which in his life did him accompany:
That hath ordained this green and turfie cover,
On his deceased Corpes to be laid over:
But since thou coverest such an one as hee,
How can the Marbles all, but envy thee.
Which in his life did him accompany:
That hath ordained this green and turfie cover,
On his deceased Corpes to be laid over:
But since thou coverest such an one as hee,
How can the Marbles all, but envy thee.
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