On the death of the Reverend Dr. John Goad. Wright, James, 1643-1713. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A96975 of text R186885 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing W3696A). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A96975 Wing W3696A ESTC R186885 47683583 ocm 47683583 173038 2248522151

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A96975) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 173038) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2661:43) On the death of the Reverend Dr. John Goad. Wright, James, 1643-1713. 1 sheet ([1] p.). s.n., [S.l. : 1689?] In verse. Signed at end: J.W. Attributed to James Wright by Wing (2nd ed.). Date of publication from Wing (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in: Bodleian Library. eng Goad, John, 1616-1689 -- Poetry. Elegiac poetry, English -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo On the death of the reverend Dr. John Goad. Wright, James, 1689 1 356 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-08 Sampled and proofread 2007-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
ON THE DEATH Of the REVEREND Dr. JOHN GOAD . GOodness inspire me , while I write of One , Who was all Goodness ; but alas ! He 's gone . How false a thing is Humane Life ! The Best Of Men , are soonest sever'd from the rest . 'T is Fatal to be Eminently Good , Such die , almost , as soon as Understood . Tho' He , for whom we Mourn , liv'd longer , then The Prophet Limits to the most of Men ; Yet did his Days seem , ( to all those who knew His many Vertues , ) very short and few . And , one may safely say , most of the Times He saw were Evil , and Defam'd with Crimes . Labour and Sorrow did His Age annoy , Now chang'd to Bliss , and everlasting Joy. Can We , His Friends , at such a Change complain ? True , 't was Our Loss , but His much greater Gain . Fruitless ▪ if not unjust , is all Complaint , Happy are We , that once we knew a SAINT ! A Christian truly Evangelical , Of wondrous Charity and Love to all . A right NATHANIEL in his Conversation . Pious , beyond the Standard of the Nation . His Thoughts above the World , which , in respect To His own Conscience , He did quite neglect . His Science Universal , Vast His Parts : Ignorant , only , in Dishonest Arts. Which did excel , may a nice Question be , His Knowledge , or His Life in Piety . Learned , yet Humble , Grave , yet Chearful too , ( A happy Temper given but to few ) Such was the Venerable GOAD . Let us Then immitate His Vertuous Life ; for thus We Honour most His Memory ; thus shew , That We indeed , that Holy Man did know , And ( which of all advantages is best ) Thus , we shall meet Him in Eternal Rest . J. W.