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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

it doth call for double honour Now this honourable respect of the aged especially if godly must be expressed 1. By reverent gestures Thou shalt rise up before the hoary Lev. 19. 32. head and honour the face of the old man 2. By giving them the precedencie in speaking in all cases to be debated Elihu said I am young and ye are very old Job 32. 6 7. Adolescens bis interrogatus respondeat Bern. wherefore I was afraid and durst not shew mine opinion I said Dayes should speak and multitude of years should teach wisedom 3. By testimonies of due estimation to their persons even at those times when there may be occasion to blame some of their practices Rebuke not an Elder but intreat him as a Father 1 Tim. 5. 1. 4. By submitting unto their grave and gracious counsels Likewise ye younger submit your selves unto the elder The Apostle 1 Pet. 5. 5. Philem. 9. stileth himself Paul the aged to prevail with Philemon to yeeld unto his advice 5. By preferring them if in all other regards comparison be equall in discoveries of love and estimation As it was agreed upon betwixt Paul and the Disciples that he should rather lodge at the house of Mnason an old Disciple then any Acts 21. 16. where else By thus doing we shall witnesse to the world that our judgements are rectified and our conversations are ordered by the word of truth and that therefore we account the hoary-head to be a Crown of glory if it be found in the way of righteousnesse Now having concluded my discourse upon the Text I know it is expected that I should speak unto the occasion of our meeting concerning this Reverend Father whose Funeral we now celebrate I will premise this that a full Narrative of his long well-spent Life cannot be expected from my report at this time but I hope that it will in due time be drawn up and handed unto you for his honourable remembrance and for imitation unto posterity by One who wasfully acquainted both with his Life and Death In generall this I dare assert with confidence wherein I doubt not your consent that his hoary head was a Crown of glory for it was found in the way of righteousnesse Through Gods good providence he had a long time worn this his Crown for he was well nigh Fourscore years old Notwithstanding this his great age yet through unusuall divine indulgence his strength was not labour and sorrow for he Psal 90. 10. was neither afflicted with the Stone or Gowt or Cramp or any Cough but he laboured only as I have often heard him say under the disease of weak old age That which is recorded of Abraham may be applied to him That he died in a Gen. 25. 8. good old age an old man and full of years Neither were the abilities of his minde abated but his understanding and memory continued strong even unto his end As all his Works published do proclaim his incomparable learning in all kindes so those which were lately printed do witnesse that Academicall studies when he was young were fresh and ready for improvement in his old age And the promise made to the righteous man was verified in him He shall bring forth Psal 92. 14. fruit in old age he shall be fat and flourishing In all which regards whether we consider the continued healthfull frame of his body or the uninterrupted fruitfullnesse of the gifts and graces of his spirit it may be truly said of him in reference to his death That he is come to his grave in a full age like as a Job 5. 26. shock of Corn cometh in in his season But that I may not anticipate the intended Narrative of his whole Life I shall only declare two or three passages towards the end of his dayes When he looked upon the weakning distempers which had caused him to keep his bed as the Arrest of death he was pleased through his love to my worthlesse self to give order that I should be certified of his weaknesse that he might be remembred before the Lord in my prayers and also that I might be requested as from himself to perform the like office of respect for him which I had lately done for his Reverend neighbour Mr Whitaker by preaching his Funerall Sermon Upon this intelligence the next morning I hastened unto him to witnesse mine unfeigned love and honourable respect of him as also to put this work which I have now performed with his approbation upon an abler hand but finding him altogether unwilling to excuse me I thought it more meet to undertake it then to distemper his spirit by my refusall By reason of his very great weaknesse he could not speak much but that which he said was weighty and savoury which I will faithfully relate His words were these I am now conflicting with my last Adversary though I beleeve the sting is taken out Nature will struggle but I humbly submit unto the good pleasure of God I heartily beg the pardon of my many sinnes especially of my want of sedulity and fidelity in my publick and private charge hoping to be washed with Christs blood and desiring to be translated out of this restlesse condition I expect daily yea hourly to be translated into that everlasting rest which God hath prepared for them who are interested in his Christ And I pray God to blesse you and his whole Ministery every where These were his last words unto me upon which I might much enlarge my self but I leave the improvement hereof and of his laborious exemplary Life unto your conscientious endeavours Although he be now dead yet he still liveth by his worthy Works already printed unto which I hope many more which be left ready for the Presse will be added for future profit in the Church of Christ I conclude with hearty desires that this sad providence in his death may be sanctified unto us all and especially unto his nearest Relations through Gods rich grace in Jesus Christ FINIS The Narrative of the Life and Death of Mr GATAKER Mr THOMAS GATAKER or GATACRE for so he wrote himself till of later years to prevent miscalling occasioned frequently by the view of the letters he changed it into GATAKER was a branch of an ancient Family so firmly by Gods providence planted in Shropshire that the stock hath continued in the same House carrying the Name of its owner and known by the title of Gatacre-Hall by an uninterrupted succession from the time of K. Edward the Confessor His Father Mr Thomas Gatacre being not the eldest sonne of William Gatacre was designed by his Parents to the study of the Law in order to which he was a student at the Temple During the course of that institution he occasionally coming to visit some Kinred then high in place and power was often present at the examination of some Christian confessors of the Gospel in those severe times wherein Satan armed all his