Elegie on the universaly [sic] lamented death of Mr. Alexander Scheills: an eminent minister of the gospell, who departed this life at Jamaica, in his return from Caledonia, 1700.

Elegie on the universaly [sic] lamented death of Mr. Alexander Scheills: an eminent minister of the gospell, who departed this life at Jamaica, in his return from Caledonia, 1700. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B03253 of text R174930 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E442AB). 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. 2 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 B03253 Wing E442AB ESTC R174930 52614638 ocm 52614638 175852 2240886444

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B03253) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 175852) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2752:38) Elegie on the universaly [sic] lamented death of Mr. Alexander Scheills: an eminent minister of the gospell, who departed this life at Jamaica, in his return from Caledonia, 1700. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [Edinburgh? : 1700] Caption title. Mourning border. Place and date of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in: National Library of Scotland. eng Scheills, Alexander, d. 1700. Elegiac poetry, English -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. eebo Elegie on the universaly [sic] lamented death of Mr. Alexander Scheills: : an eminent minister of the gospell, who departed this life at Jamaica, in h [no entry] 1700 1 296 1 0 0 0 0 0 33.78 C The rate of 33.78 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-05 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-09 Megan Marion Sampled and proofread 2008-09 Megan Marion Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

ELEGIE On the universaly Lamented Death of Mr. ALEXANDER SCHEILLs : An Eminent Minister of the Gospell , who Departed this Life at Jamaica , in his Return from CALEDONIA , 1700. COme Muses nine , assist me to Lament The loss of him , no danger could prevent , From Carying on the Cause of Chr●st his master But Boldly did withstand every disaster , Came in his way , and like to Noah's Dove , He for the Ark of God bear such a Love That to the Sole of 's foot he found no rest Untill he found , the Delege overpast . Would I had Argus eyes that Floods of Tears Might flow from thence to dispell all our fears . Heaven by this strock , seems our designes to blast , Since he is gone , whil'st life and strength did last , All hazards venturd , Religion to premot By 's Life and Doctrine , where e're he sooting got ; That Heathen Infidels did aln oft own The Glorious Gospel ( by him ) to them shown , To be more precious than all their Indian Gold , As I have heard by Travelers often told . Shall such an usefull member of the Church Fall by Deaths Dart and ne'r on heart so much As once be grived , nor any eye found weep For loseing of a Shepherd of Christs Sheep . Who e're was faithfull in feeding of his Flocks And notwithstanding of what stumbling Blocks Stood in his way , He tenderly them Led And with sincere milk of the Word them Fed , Wherefore He now is with immortall Rayes , Crown'd , in those Mansions where his Master stayes . FINIS .