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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	darkness_n	light_n	shine_v	1,422	5	9.5903	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75708	Gray hayres crowned with grace. A sermon preached at Redriff, Aug. 1. 1654. at the funerall of that reverend, eminently learned and faithfull minister of Jesus Christ Mr Thomas Gataker.	Ashe, Simeon, d. 1662.	1654 (1654)	Wing A3958; Thomason E818_3; ESTC R207388	59,080	86

forces to suppresse that dawning light which threatned ruin to his kingdom of darknesse The harshnesse of those proceedings together with the constancy of the good though simple Christians that with evidence of truth and resolution of minde maintained Faith and a good conscience were of great moment with him to facilitate the entertainment of that purer doctrine of the Gospel which began to shine into his soul This being apprehended by his Parents they jealous of his change sent him over to Lorain in Flanders and to win him to a compliance in religion setled upon him an estate in Lease of 100lb per annum old rent but like St Paul Phil. 3. he counted all outward advantages as nothing in comparison of the knowledge of Christ Jesus Therefore his Father perceiving his unchangeable stedfastnesse in that choice which had nothing to prejudice it but the seeming novelty recalled him and with great displeasure revoked his own Grant which yet could not take effect without the Sonnes consent But the young disciple had already learned the hard lesson of self-denyall and forsaking all to follow Christ Therefore to preserve his conscience he gave up that which had been the bait of Apostasie Now the Lord that hath promised to his faithfull followers satisfaction for all their losses raised him up Friends by whose means and advice he pursued his studies at Oxford and in process of time when not only the clowds of ignorance and superstition were dispelled but also the showers of blood were blown over he took upon him the publick Ministry of the Gospel He was houshold Chaplain to Robert Earl of Leicester and Pastor of St Edmunds in Lumbertstreet London In that Parsonage-house by his Wife Margaret being of an honest Family of the Pigots in Hertfordshire among other Children he had this Sonne Thomas born Sept 4. A. D 1574. In his Childhood he was so addicted to those means which his Parents applied him unto for the implanting in him the seeds of good literature that he needed a bridle rather then a spur for his love of Learning equall to that admirable capacity wherewith the Father of Lights had furnished him was so active in the acquiring of it that his Father hath often gently chidden him from his book Neither were his nimble wit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greg. Naz. Epitrph Basil sharp reason and vast memory perverted to be the instruments of that debauchery wherewith the corruption of our nature doth too often stain and deflower our first dayes for he had a lovely gravity in his young conversation so that what Greg. Nazianzen said of the great Basil might be averred of him that he held forth Learning beyond his age and a fixedness of Manners more considerable then his Learning Having happily dispatched his tyrocinnia of first exercises in the Grammer-Schools wherein he overcame by strange industry the difficulties which that age destitute of many helps our present dayes enjoy conflicted withall and outstripped many that ran in the same course before he had compleated sixteen years A. D. 1590. He was by his Father placed in St Johns Colledge in Cambridge Not long after his settlement there his Father being called by God to receive the reward of his labours left him not wholly destitute yet not sufficiently provided for any long continuance of his studies there But God that hath engaged his truth and mercy to the upright even for their seed also Psal 112. 1 2. especially when the Sonne doth not degenerate or thwart the providence of God by a forfeiture of his title to the Promises provided friends and means for him who was by an hidden counsel then designed to be an instrument of doing service to the Church of Christ Thus the fruit was not nipped in a promising bud by the frost of want Now not from meer favour but from merit upon the proof of his Learning he was chosen Scholer of that worthy Society wherein he continued his Studies with unwearied diligence and happy success till he with Abilities answerable to his Degree commenced Master of Arts. Take for an instance of his Industry this viz. that he was a constant Auditor of that eminent Light of Learning Mr Jo. Boys who read a Greek Lecture in his bed to certain young Students that preferred antelucana studia before their rest and ease The Notes of those praelections he kept as a treasure and being visited by Mr Boys many years after he produced them to the no small joy of the good old man who professed himself made some years younger by that entertainment Then was contracted that streight friendship betwixt Mr Gataker and that faithfull servant of Christ Mr Rich. Stock which continued untill the death of this Reverend Minister as appears by the testimony given unto him at his Funeral An evidence of the good esteem which Mr Gataker had now acquired for his Learning and Piety was this that a College being then to be erected by the munificence of the Countess of Sussex the Trustees of that Foundress Persons eminent for Zeal and Prudence did choose him to be one of that Society They transplanted him into that new Nursery of Arts and Religion being confident that he would as he did by Christs assistance prove fruitfull for the ornament and benefit of that Seminary Indeed they laid hold of him before the house was fit for inhabitants fearing lest so fair and promising a flower should be taken up by some other hand But while the College was in building that he might not lose any opportunity of doing good he retired to Mr William Aylofes house in Essex who had gained him that he might instruct both himself in the Hebrew Tongue and his eldest Sonne in Literature proper to his age In this Family partly by his own inclination and partly by the incouragement of the Governours thereof he performed holy Duties for the instruction of the whole houshold expounding a portion of Scripture every morning that the Sunne of Righteousness might as constantly arise as the day brake in upon them In this Exercise whereby he laboured proficere prodesse both to edifie others and himself he dispatched the Epistles of the Apostles the Prophecies of Isaiah and a good part of the book of Job rendring the Text out of the Original Languages and thence delivering cleer explications and also deducing usefull observations Dr Stern then Suffragan of Colchester visiting the Mistress of the Family to whom he was neerly related happened to be present at this Exercise when Mr Gataker explicated the first Chapter of St Pauls Epistle to the Ephesians which is known to be most pregnant of deep divine mysteries This portion of holy Writ he treated upon with so happy elucidations that the judicious Doctor much satisfied with the performance and admiring the indowments of Mr Gataker exhorted him instantly to take holy Orders whereby those Gifts might be authorized for publick use and improved for the building up of the Church and withall