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A85813	Anthologia : the life & death of Mr Samuel Crook late pastor of Wrington in Sommerset-shire, who being dead, yet speaketh. By W.G. An eye and ear-witness of both.	Garrett, William, d. 1674 or 5.	1651 (1651)	Wing G272; Thomason E1352_3; ESTC R209419	18,671	77

Gospel unless in times of sicknesse or necessitated restraint for the space of forty seven years wherein he could give an account of above seven thousand elaborate Sermons preached by him are so well known not onely in this or the neighbour Parishes but thorough the whole County and the Country round about that I need not mention them Few men ever ran so long a race without cessation or cespitation so constantly so unweariably so unblameably All which time he was a burning and a shining light joyfully spending and being spent for the good of Gods people Many many of whom he hath guided to heaven before him who received the beginnings of spirituall life from his ministery and many more shall walk in that light after him And from his splendent lampe divers faithfull ministers some Triumphant before him some Militant after him have lighted their candles His Tuesday lecture being more profitable to teach usefull Divinity then an Academy whereby he did not only dolare lapides sed artifices Two things rarely met in one man were both eminent in him A quick invention and a sound judgment and these accompanied with a clear expression and a gracefull elocution To which integrity and humility being joyned made him a transcendent Minister and a compleat Christian In his sicknesse full of biting paines which he bore with great patience it was his greatest griefe that God had taken him off from his labour which was his life and joy His heavenly minde like the heavenly bodies counted his work no wearinesse If he were weary in work he was yet never weary of work His spirit was still willing when the flesh was weak And he often used to say in his health Si per hanc viam mors sum immortalis and in his weakness odi artus fragilemque hunc corpor is usum desertorem animi And when he saw no more ability for labours he counted it superfluous to live and cheerfully not only yeelded but patiently desired to die in a satiety and fulness of life Not as a meat loathed as many times naturall men doe but as a dish though wel-liked that he had fed his full of He had his intellectuals strong in a weak body witnesse his last swanlike song in this place the sweet doctrine of our Adoption in Jesus Christ on Rom. 8.16 so far he had gone in that chap. most cleerly and accurately delivered and aptly distinguished from Justification and Sanctification yet that day October 16. going to Church and sensitive of his own weaknesse he said to a dear friend who told him that he came to see and hear him perhaps it may be my last as to all our losse it was indeed And as if his motion in Gods work had been naturall he was more quick more vigorous towards his Center and like the Sunne shewed his greatest light when he was nearest his setting His last ministeriall duty privately done in great weaknesse of body unable to go to the Church was the baptizing of two children wherein he streamed such beams of Divinity sounded such bowels of humanity shewed such sweetnesse of affection to his charge that I seriously wished his whole Congregation had heard him in this departing farewell And being told how well it was approved he replyed with tears in great humility Lord what am I What am I To divers of his loving Neighbours visiting him he often protested that doctrine which he had taught them was the Truth of God as he should answer at the Tribunall of Christ whereunto he was hasting exhorting them to stand fast therein as he most affectionately prayed for them professing of them with joy I have kind friends kind neighbours Lord reward them all and grant they may find mercy with him in that day His desire was to give to his neighbours if enough could have been had his printed Catechism which to my knowledge hath had the approbation and commendation of the profoundest and acutest judgements in both Universities and well it might being a compleat body of orthodox Divinity and to have this assertion of the Apostle Peter written before it Exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand and to subscribe his name to it After he had in himself received the sentence of approaching death which he chearfully did when he saw no more likelihood of labour he desired his friends not to pray for life but pray God said he for faith for patience for repentance for joy in the holy Ghost and God heard him in that he desired for he was a rare pattern of all these as among many these gratious words of his may witnesse Lord cast me down as low as hell in repentance and lift me up by faith unto the highest heavens in confidence of thy salvation I wish our proud presumptuous impenitentiaries had heard him crying for repentance and seen him weeping for grace It might perhaps have melted their stout hearts As he was full of days so was he full of grace full of peace full of assurance The tuesday before he departed This day sennight saith he is the day on which we have remembred Christs Nativity and on which day I have preached Christ I shall scarse live to see it but For Me was that child born Unto me was that Son given who is Wonderfull Counsellour the mighty God the everlasting Father the Prince of peace And no lesse full was he of true honour for his worth and work sake in the hearts of all that fear God His memory shall be blessed and his name a sweet perfume to posterity when the names of his reproachfull scorners the last brood of Beelzebub shall rot and stink and be an abhorring to all flesh He is now come to the end of his labour and the begining of his rest His work was with his God and his reward shall be from God Now he sees the blessed and blessing face of God which is the glory of all sights and the sight of all glory Thus set this bright occidentall starre A starre of the first magnitude One of the first and I dare say without envy of any that knew him and knows himself one of the most glorious Lights that ever shone in this Orbe or ever is like to arise in this Horizon O! how is such a publick losse to be lamented of such a Champion of Christ such an Atlas of truth that set his shoulders to support the shaken pillars thereof in these days of abounding and abetted errors Well may this Parish mourn well may this country well may his friends his family well may we of the Ministery bewail it saying O my Father my Father the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof Ah my brother my brother I am distressed for thee very pleasant hast thou been unto me lovely and gratious in life lovely glorious in death Heu tua nobis Morte simul tecum solatia rapta I end in one word of Exhortation You that have heard the

scurrility And usually hee closed all with the reading of some Scripture and giving some short profitable strictures thereupon which might administer grace to the hearers and leave a sweet relish and savour upon their spirits whole converse His Character To give you a full character of his whole deportment in few words He was a good and a faithfull steward in his Masters house always abounding in the work of the Lord a Pillar in the house of his God never weary of his Lords work but best pleased when he had done most service His conversation was immaculate his behaviour uniforme and universally pious He was grave without austerity pleasant without levity courteous without dissembling free in discourse where he might profit yet reserved where he saw cause He was seldome the first speaker although best able to speak He loved usefull discourse but abhorred froth and babling he was witty without vanity facetious without girding or grieving of others He knew his place yet not insolent resolute but not wilfull maintained his authority but not haughty a great master of his own passions and affections and thereby abundantly furnished with the more abilities and embellishments that most attract and maintain the dearest love the deepest reverence and highest respect a great admirer of learning and piety in others though farte below himself in both His affections were above though he were below he conversed more with heaven then with earth while he remained in it and is now a Crown of glory in the hand of the Lord and a royall Diadem in the hand of his God as being an ornament unto heaven it self His age and zeal for the Churches He lived in the world 75 years within one moneth in which long race he saw many sad changes and sore stormes beating hard upon the Church tossed with tempests and not yet at Anchor But never was David more distressed for his dearest Jonathan than this man of bowels for the calamities of the dear spouse of Christ He was most incessantly inquisitive after her estate in all countreys a sad lamentor of all her afflictions a daily Orator and mighty Advocate for her at the throne of Grace and never enjoyed himself but when he descryed her under saile towards some creek or haven of comfort and rest being much in prayer and fasting for her full reformation and perfect deliverance His hopes of the King of Sweden Some good hopes whereof he conceived in the prosperous atchievements of the great Gustavus last King of Sweden Semper augustus But when he by the sad and unsearchable providence of the only wise God suddenly and untimely fell in the full carreir of his victories and of the Churches hopes and that the Christian world was in his fall hurled from the height of so great expectation he continually mourned over the unhappy setting of that glorious northern Starre as a sad presage of all the inundations of miseries since befallen and still rising higher and higher upon the Churches of Christ the quick and deep sense whereof lay close unto his heart to his dying day His sufferings and dangers Nor was he without his Manes in our common troubles He was affronted by dangerous ruffians and bloudy minded fouldiers tyrannizing over him in his own house not permitting him quietly to enjoy himself and his God in his private study to which he often retyred not only from their insolencies but blasphemies Even thither would they pursue him with drawn swords vowing his instant death for not complying with them in their bloudy ingagements Yet it pleased that gracious God whom he had so faithfully served to preserve him for further service and to make that a chamber for his preservation which they intended for his slaughter-house at length to bring him to his end in peace His death When he had faithfully served his generation by the will of God in the Gospel of his Son above 47 years he was Dum licuit liquida coelum transcendere fama gathered to his fathers in a good age full of days and honour by an happy death the certain result of an holy life Decemb. 25. 1649. the day usually observed for celebrating the Nativity of his Great Lord and Master the Lord Jesus Christ His Funerall The last testimony of the peoples great love to him must not be forgotten by any that desire to preserve his precious memory in their hearts with honour This amply appeared by their great lamentation and mourning for him in his sicknesse and at his death and sad exequies His funerals were extraordinarily celebrated not only by the voluntary conflux of the greatest number of people that ever crowded into the spacious fabrick of that Church and by many hundreds moe there assembled about the doors and unable to get in but by multitudes of Gentlemen and Ministers all striving to out-mourn each other standing about his hearse with tears recounting his excellent labours his fruitfull life their great profiting by him as sometimes the widowes about Peter weeping and shewing the coates and garments which Dorcas made while she was with them every one aggravating their griefes and losses in his gain and striving who should honour him most in bearing his dead body to the bed of rest Testimony given him at his Funerall The Testimony given him at his interment by him who performed that last office with many tears and which he knowingly spake from his long and intimate acquaintance and conversing with him almost 40 years take with you for a close in that Ministers own words out of the Pulpit Although funerall orations are commonly either the vain flourishes of mercenary tongues or the weake supports of an emendicated fame and since good mens works shall praise them in the gates t is but to light a candle to the Sun and since bad mens works cannot be covered with so thin a daub t is but to paint a rotten post Yet some Testimony is due to such as having obtained a more eminent place in Christs mysticall body the Church have also been instruments of more then ordinary good to his members Samuel dyed a Judge a Prophet a Great man a good man in Israel and all the Israelites were gathered together to honour his obsequies and lamented him and buried him 1 Sam. 25.1 To say nothing then of so rich a Cargazon so full a magazin so rare a subject of all commendable qualities and admirable endowments were a frustrating of your eager expectations To say little were a wrong to him that deserved so much to say much were both a derogation from his merits that may challenge and an imputation upon your judgements and affections that will acknowledge more due then I can now deliver Nevertheless since the memorial of the just is a sweet perfume give me leave to strew a few of his own flowers upon his herse an I 'le discharge your patience His holy life and conscientious courses his constant labours thrice a week in the Ministry of the