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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67403	The life and death of the eminently learned, pious, and painful minister of the gospel, Dr. Samuel Winter, sometime provest of Trinity Colledge near Dublin in Ireland together with some rare examples of Gods gracious answers to his prayers, upon several occasions.	J. W.	1671 (1671)	Wing W59A; ESTC R40677	35,328	96

leaves them till it brings them to fruition There yet remain some things which could not well be reduced to any one part of the Narrative of this worthy Persons Life and because they did like so many Golden Threads pass through the whole Web or like the spirits in the blood which run through the whole Body and therefore these were thought sit to be reserved to the close of all that the Reader may have a view of them altogether And they are such Graces as were very remarkable in this Man of God For so I call him no● only because he was a Minister and 〈◊〉 Gods Servant in a more 〈…〉 but also in regard of those eminent and excellent Virtues appearing in him by which God did set his Mark 〈◊〉 Seal upon him as his peculiar Treasure And these Graces were so conspicuous in him that all that knew and were acquainted with him will readily attest to the Truth of them And they may be thus ranked in Order 1. His great Humility and meekness of Spirit 2. His diligence and industry in his Calling 3. His Zeal and fervor manifesting it self in his Praying Preaching and Conference and strict observation of the L●●d Day 4. His Liberality and Bounty upon all good occasions 5. His great Candour and Ingenuity 6. His Faith and Patience First to begin with his Humility 〈…〉 as that excellent Grace which embellished and gave a lustre to all the r●st and is often inculcated and injoyned in the holy Scriptures and was most admirable in our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who proposes himself as a Pattern to us in that grace especially● And surely all that knew this worthy Doctor will readily acknowledge this to have been very eminent in him and that not only in his words and Garb and some trivial actions which may easily be personated and counterfeited As they were in the Fryer who went seemingly dejected and alwaies looking down ward to the Earth untill he was made an Abbot and then he altered his Mode and gave this reason for it That he had long been looking for the Keyes of the Abbey and that now having found them he need no longer do according to his former custom But in this person Humility was of an higher strain and more deeply radicated in his heart And truly it was the more admirable in him because he had divers things which might have elevated his thoughts and puffed up his heart with Pride as a plentiful estate a considerable rank in the world and great abilities But these were poor things in his esteem He could condescend to men of the lowest rank He used to magnifie the abilities of others whilst he thought and spake meanly of his own and was not offended if others did the like He could easily bear the Contradictions of others and stoop to the lowest offices to do good to Souls It s well known that he would go to the poorest Neighbours houses in his Parish and there sit and discourse with them about the great and weighty concernments 〈◊〉 their Souls Questioning with them and instructing them And at his departure would give them some money that by his deeds he might add the greater weight to his words His 〈◊〉 and ma●● his next return the more welcome And this he did nor to gain Preselytes to himself or a Name among men but to gain them to Christ and to be a means in furthering the Salvation of their Souls Secondly His diligence His Industry and Industry in his Calling was very great and exemplary A hard Student he was and so continued to the last It is scarce credible but to those that saw and knew it what a great number of Books were found in his Library filled with Transcriptions from the Au●hours he read besides pieces of Controversie and observations of his own And indeed there were few Books that he read but he drew Notes out of them and made Marks in them of what was most considerable To which if we add all his Manuscripts which had been the summ of near twenty years study lost in the time of the late Wars we cannot but conclude him to have been a most faithful and painful labourer in Gods Vineyard His daily ●ractice declared him to be a person ●areful to Redeem Time and fearfull 〈◊〉 lose or wast it As soon as he was out of his bed in ●he morning whilst he dressed himself His Studiousness his Wife or a Servant read to him some Chapters in course out of the Old and New Testament When he was drest he retired himself into his Study where he ordinarily continued till he was called down to Prayer and Dinner After which for better digestion he intermitted his Studies and took opportunity of discourse with Friends and Neighbours that came to visit him who knew that to be the only time wherein they might find him at leasure For he used to forbid any to come to him in the forenoon that his studies might not be interrupted And after two or three hours intermission he returned into his study again where for the most part His 〈◊〉 he continued both Summer and Winter till about eight a clock at night seldom eating any Supper or very sparingly When he was come down calling his Family together he read a Chapter in course gave the sense of it went to Prayer and so to bed often grudgeing the time that he spent in sleep Time precious and eating To this may be added that as it was his care to be well prepared before he went to Preach for he would not offer either to God or man that which cost him nothing so did he strive to get his heart into a right frame for Preaching that from the heart he might speake to the hearts of his hearers as he used often to say and to obtain assistance from God therein he used by private Prayer to beg Gods blessing upon his labours It was his frequent saying That he was as circumspect and diligent in studying what he was to deliver as if be expected no assistance from Christ yet when be came to Preach disowning his own endeavours he wholly cat himself upon Jesus Christ for strength and assistance as if he had not stuyed at all And that God had oftentimes suggested such matter into his mind in the delivery of his Sermons as he had not thought on before which he observed God did abundantly bless to the Comfort and Edification of the Auditors He would often say That his op●ortunities were his Riches and he was ●areful to improve them whence it ●eldome came to pass that he Preached without making some reall impression upon his hearers which was discovered by the Tears that fell from many of them Thirdly His Zeal In the next place his zeal and fervour deserves our consideration It was the Counsel of a grave Divine That Christians should take heed that their old judgements did not abate their youthful affections And