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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

we rest not in any thing wrought in us or by us as meritorious Paul is this sense looks it all as dr●ss and dung and at the last day when perfect desires only to be found in Christ not having his own righteousness which is of the Law hut that which is of Faith by Jesus Christ Philip. 3.9 And as when a man gives possession to another of an house he turns all out no qui●● thing must be there so all Sin and all confidence i● our own righteousness turn out that Christ al●n● may take possession of the Soul which he hath purchased long ago at so dear a rate 4. Fourthly It s necessary that we he regenerate and born from above John 3.3 5. Jesus said 〈◊〉 Ni●●d●mns except a man be born again he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God Old things are past away and all things become now W● mu●t have new thoughts new desires new sea●● new sorrows new Joys new speeches new company new objects a new conversation in a word that 〈◊〉 live fr●m Christ according to Christ and for Christ ends and not contend with Christ any more ab●●● the pre●eminence of the first cause and the last end but make Christ the Alpha and Omega in all things 5. Fifthly That we close with Christ by faith as our Lord and Saviour John 1.12 But as many as received him to them he gave power to become the sons of God even to them that believe in his name The soul being first sensible of its l●st estate and secondly seeing a necessity of a Saviour Acts 4.12 And thirdly being taken with the beauty and excellency of Christ then faith closeth with Christ as Lord and Saviour takes Christ as a Prophet to instruct him and as a Priest to save him and as a King to rule over him And afterward the soul attaines to assurance of his Love 1 John 5.13 These things have I written to you that you believe on the name of the Son of God that ye may know that ye have Eternal Life by a holy walking with God for in that sense good works justifie Faith declaratively as faith doth the sinner 6. Sixthly and lastly that we be sincere that is first to hate all sin and loth it Secondly perform or endeavour to perform all known duties Psal 119.6 I shall not be ashamed when I have respect to all thy Commandments Thirdly to walk as in the sight of God Esa 48 3. Remember now O Lord I beseech thee how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart and have done that which is good in thy sight Fourthly That though we do but little yet what we do we do for Gods ends that he may be glorified 1 Cor. 10.31 Whether therefore ye eat or drink or whatever you do do all to the glory of God O then let us be sincere else we shall lose the things that we have wrought 2. John 8. Look to your selves that we lose not these things which we have wrought but that you receive a full reward For this heaven of hypocrisie spreads swells and sowres all we do and so ma●●s all It spreads and sowrs then it puffs up the Soul with spiritual pride and no sin more dangerous than this Hypocrisie makes all we do but as shining sins as the gilded Mice of the Philistins that were sightly in the eyes of men but of no value with God Jehu did many glorious things but all was nothing because his heart was not upright with God or before God These are the things that accompany Salvation which whoever attains unto shall certainly be Saved without which the Lord according to Scripture rule will not Save you if they be not really and effectually wrought in you by the holy spirit Oh! then let me beseech you to whom these lines shall come Strive to enter in at the straight gate be sure you build not upon a sandy foundation Mat. 7.26 But upon the rock Jesus Christ Mat. 7.24 Rest not in any thing short of Christ Take heed you perish not near the City of refuge but consider that saying of Christ Mat. 7.22 Many will say unto me in that day Lord Lord have we not Prophesied in thy name open to us to whom Christ will say depart from me I never knew you Now to attain to what is here said is daily to seek to the Lord who turns the hearts as rivers of Waters Prov. 21.1 And hath Promised to take away the hearts of Stone and give hearts of Flesh and to put his spirit in us and cause us to walk in his wayes Ezek. 36.26 27. We must attend in all holy ordinances as constant prayer in secret and with others In hearing and daily reading the holy Scriptures some part of them Also the Sacraments must not be neglected Christ is a Prince and a Saviour He gives Repentance and remission of sins Acts 5.31 He is a God hearing Prayers to him must all flesh come saith the Psalmist and those that come unto him he will in no wise cast off John 6.37 Christ will forgive iniquities transgressions and sins For this purpose the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the Devil 1 John 3.8 Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden and I will ease you and you shall find rest to your Souls Mat. 11.28 Christ is our Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption 1 Cor. 1.30 A Letter written by Doctor Winter to a Gentlewoman who was under great Trouble of mind My dear Friend and Sister in Christ I Received your welcome Letter and return you many thanks for your dear affections and fervent Prayers for me an unworthy Instrument in the hands of Christ But am very sorry that you are relapsed into your former doubting thoughts which I entreat you to wave and lay aside lest Christ upbraid you as he did his Disciples Mark 16. with your unbelief and hardness of heart When Christ was risen from the dead and his work was done he doth not go to Heaven but staies on Earth a place not fit for a glorified Body and convers●a with his Disciples and that not so much for his 〈◊〉 Honour to prove himself not to be held by the h●●●s of death as to strengthen our Faith and in the day of his Resurrection he appeared five times like one that cannot endure to be out of our company though he ever finds something among us that might justly make him withdraw as he did among them therefore the Lord upbraids them for want 1 of clearness of faith Luke 24.26 2 of fulness of faith ver 25. Slow of heart to believe all that the Prophets have spoken 3 of comfort of faith ver 17. And are sad 4 Of not owning their faith ver 21. We trusted that it had been he that should have delivered Israel 5 Of readiness of faith Ver. 25. O fools and slow of heart to believe He had expressed abundance of love in satisfying

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