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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	great_a	life_n	love_n	7,775	5	5.2746	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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