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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	love_n	patience_n	temperance_n	1,817	5	11.3534	5	true

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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

able to powr out their soules and the souls of their people into the very bosome of the Almighty The time of his continuance in his charge In this Orbe of his publick Ministery this fixed starre shined brightly without the least eclipse or retrograde motion somewhat above forty seven years A long time for such a lamp to burn as he did but a fair opportunity of bringing many straggling sheep into Christs fold and worthy only of such a shepheard Once indeed the last B p of that Diocess gave a stop to his Tuesday Lecture but God set it on going again and cast him that did it out of his place while this painfull labourer went on with his work Sed manus de tabula I intended onely a short abstract not a volume of his life I forbear therefore to speak more of his publick Ministery and resolve to close up all with a few observations of his private carriage His exemplary conversation abroad His whole life was exemplary Take him as a Christian raised by his ministeriall function to a Beacon height his smell was very fragrant He not onely kept himself pure and unspotted of the world but his light so shined that both good men glorified God by seeing his good works and wicked and foolish men had their mouths stopped by his good conversation in Christ and were even enforced to give testimony to it maugre their malice against his holinesse and worth In his Family In his family towards the wife of his bosome he walked as a man of knowledge wisdom and great tendernesse of love towards the rest as David Ps 101. and as a Bishop of Pauls description 1 Tim. 3. and Tit. 1. And towards all as a worthy pattern of love zeal humility meeknesse temperance patience gravity and of every good work His diligence in study What his constancy and diligence was in his study the fruits of the great and long travell of his mind his Workes which praise him in all the gates of Sion do speak to all the world beyond all my pen can reach I must say no more of this because when I have said all I can I cannot say so much as his own industry speaks His Discourses In his more vacant houres he was farre from being idle or unprofitable such as had the happinesse which was never denyed to any to partake of his private discourses never returned empty from his full Magazin if they brought vessels capable of the overflowings of his rich mind and heart How many excellent lights in the Church have lighted their torches at his celestiall fire How many young Scholars have been marvellously improved by his prudent and pious directions and incouragements in their studies and are now become excellent instruments in the Churches of Christ If after his preaching he found no mention of his Sermon by which he might probably collect some benefit had been reaped from it he would be much dejected as if the fault had been in his preaching even when he had most excelled rather then in his hearers and would say that if he had preached better they would have profited more His readiness to administer to all in spirituals If any Christians came to him for resolution in Cases of Conscience for counsell in straits for comfort in spirituall desertions for healing of a wounded spirit as God had given him an excellent spirit of discerning to judge of their condition and of the most seasonable applicatives and an exquisite dexterity to speak a word in season to the weary soul so he never was shy coy or difficult to be spoken with nor supercilious to any to whom he gave accesse but shewed forth all tendernesse pity and compassion heard them fully and patiently and wisely administred to their severall distresses and ever sent them away as Titus Vespasian his suitors not onely not grieved but very well satisfied and abundantly comforted His bounty and charity He was bountifull to his kinred that needed and then most when their necessities swelled highest He was very charitable and liberall to the poor members of Jesus Christ and albeit his charity shined most towards those of his own flock yet was it not shut up from strangers but very large to them also as he found occasion Yea when he went abroad to bestow a free Gospel on other Congregations adjacent such poor as he found to be hearers unlesse they were known to him to take up hearing as a cloak to cover their idlenesse and neglect of their callings never went home empty handed but he always warmed them with his bounty as well as instructed them with his doctrine His Hospitality How much he was given to hospitality Gentlemen Ministers Neighbours Strangers and the poor must needs give in such an ample testimony as will hardly be credited by such as knew him not and are strangers to a bountifull heart He spared from himself to administer unto others minding more the wooing of many to receive benefit by his Ministery some of which might perhaps at first follow him for the loaves then to lay up largely for such as he should leave behind him and chusing rather to be at continual charge to incourage men by his bounty then to suffer them to be unprovided when they came to partake of his ministery His improvement by conversing If he conversed with Ministers his humility usually put him into the place of a learner but in learning he taught and in teaching he learned He was so good a Chymick that he seldome parted with such company till he had gotten somewhat by them yet were they sure to be the greatest gainers and then did he account it the best bargain when others got most by him His hearing of others His continuall preaching seldome allowed him the much desired benefit of hearing others when he could have opportunity he greedily layd hold on it and then would this Bee gather hony from every flower make good use of the meanest gifts and improve his own rich talent by dipping it into theirs Nor was he ever heard to slight or disparage any the labours of the least of his brethren that sincerely endeavoured to bring in soules unto Christ but still he incouraged them and as he found cause informed and directed them in a wise and taking way to their great improvement His mirth In his mirth to which he sometimes unbended himself to refocillate his weryed mind that with renewed strength he might return to his more serious and severer studies he strictly observed the bounds of honesty civility modesty and the gravity of his place well weighing that the least dead flie in the Apothecaries choycest ointment causeth it to send forth an unpleasing savour The Table was usually the place of his greatest liberty in this kind yet even there he would still interlace his mirth with some droppings of a more serious wit which might instruct as well as exhilarate and contain all within the limits of sobriety without biting Sarcasms or unseeming