Truth's champion or an elegie on the much to be lamented death of that pious and godly minister of the Gospel. Mr. Alexander Shields. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06291 of text R185761 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T3167A). 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 B06291 Wing T3167A ESTC R185761 52529042 ocm 52529042 179167 2240859313

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B06291) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179167) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2779:2) Truth's champion or an elegie on the much to be lamented death of that pious and godly minister of the Gospel. Mr. Alexander Shields. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [Edinburgh : 1700?] In verse. Caption title. Text within black mourning border. Imprint from Wing. Reproduction of the original in the National Library of Scotland. eng Shields, Alexander, 1660?-1700 -- Death and burial -- Poetry. Elegiac poetry, English -- Scotland -- 17th century. Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. eebo Truth's champion or an elegie on the much to be lamented death of that pious and godly minister of the Gospel. : Mr. Alexander Shields. [no entry] 1700 2 476 2 0 0 0 0 0 42.02 D The rate of 42.02 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-02 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-01 Sampled and proofread 2009-03 Rekeyed and resubmitted 2009-04 Sampled and proofread 2009-04 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
TRUTH'S CHAMPION OR AN ELEGIE On the much to be Lamented Death of that Pious and Godly Minister of the Gospel . Mr. ALEXANDER SHIELDS . INvoke no Muse , but the Coelestial King , When you the Praises of a Saint do sing : A Saint who did his Master's Cause defend , And boldly for his Countrey 's Rights contend . He does a Victim for his Countrey fall , Which Courtiers Pride , and Church-Men's Greed enthral This Presbyt●r the Truth did ever Love ; Nor could his Holy Soul at all approve , A Popish King's Indulgences to take , And by such Means the Solemn League to break : The Breach of Solemn Oaths he still did dread , Nor trackl'd under Court-Designs for Bread : Which , to the Blush may put some Preaching Dons , Beneath whose Greed Our Bleeding Countrey groans . He with the Truth did still adorn his Shield , Which made him boldly to maintain the Field . While others strive through blackest Crimes to raise To their base Names tall Pyramids of Praise , His Name shall be embalm'd with the Perfume Of Sweeter Spices than from Aegypt come . Truth 's Balmy Laurel shall surround his Name , And Fame , that mighty Herauld , shall proclaim Those Just Encomiums that to him are due . And every Age his Praises still renew . SHIELD's shall not dye , while there 's an honest heart That loveth Truth , and Truth will still impart . He scorn'd the fawning Flatt'ries of the Age , Nor would with truckling Parasites engage . His honest heart could never entertain A thought , that might his Holy Garment stain . Nor knew such Virtue in perswasive Gold . That for it's Sake his Countrey could be sold . He harmless , thought that Achan could not lodge In GOD's great Temple with his golden Wedge : Achan before was lodged in the Camp , But Rabbi's now receive the Fatal Stamp . With our own Substance we are bought and sold ; Men of all Ranks obey the Chink of Gold . A fatal thing to this Poor-Bleeding Land , Whose Wealth and Trade they vainly do withst and. This Holy Man more eagerly was bent For Christ's Seraphick Kingdom , and was sent A Ha●binger i' th' Indies , to proclaim Our Soveraign Lords great Doctrine and his Name . But having seen what Villany could do His Soul was struck with penetrating Woe . Then Heavenly Powers who all these Crimes foresee Did by Eternal Wisdom straight decree This Holy Soul should quickly take its Flight , Before he heard these Gloomy Shades of Night Darken'd our Lamps , and so Eclips'd our Skye , That we below the Gloomy Darkness lye .