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] |
The Life and Death of Bernard Gilpin, who dyed Anno Christi 1583.
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The Life and Death of Bernard Gilpin, who dyed Anno Christi 1583.
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Th'exuberous praises of brave Gilpins worth?
Though at the first his heedlesse soul did stray,
And ramble in a foule erronious way:
Yet at the last he left those paths which bended
Unto distruction; and his follyes ended:
Then he began to exercise the truth,
And hate the former errours of his youth.
His soul was fil'd with piety, and peace;
And as the truth, so did his joyes encrease:
His fame soone spread abroad; his worth was hurl'd
Through every corner of th'inquiring world.
And to conclude, in him all men might find
A reall heart, and a most noble minde.
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