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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

not farre from Cambridge and in some other places thereabout where beside the prosecution of other studies and performance of sundry exercises in the College he had preached 28 Sermons within the space of eleven Moneths A rare thing then in Fellows of Houses who were more commonly hinderers then furtherers of so good a work if undertaken by younger men His thankfulnesse After he was transplanted from that Nursery and setled in a Pastorall imployment many miles distant from that University to shew his thankfull acknowledgement of the honorary supports of his breeding received from those famous Seminaries he gave to Pembroke-Hall Library Great Basils works Graeco-Lat 2 vol. in fol. with these verses which tanquam ex ungue Leonem discover a specimen of his happy strayn and genius of purer Poetry as well as thankfulnesse Quae mihi formasti teneros impuberis annos Grandaeva at gravida ingeniis foelicibus Aula Penbrochiae Fas sit minimo veneranda tuorum Ingentis tenuem officii deponere partem And to Emmanuel College Library he gave all the Councels Graeco-Lat Edit Bin. Fol. five volumes with these Verses Sacra 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 studiis domus hospita sacris Emmanuel mihi quae juvenilibus arbitracoeptis Culturam comites victum gratissima Musis Otia porrexti sic te nascentia porrò Foecundam claris mirentur saecula natis Donato ut liceat tantillum reddere tantis And to the University Library he gave all Greg. Naz. and Greg. Niss works Graeco-Lat fol. 4 Vol. with these Verses Accipe parva tui 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mater alumni Sic te perpetuâ florentem pube Nepotum Sera manus sophiae lumen morúmque Magistram Artis praesidium Britonum decus orbis amorem Delicias Regum fidei venerentur Asylum His calling to Wrington Having thus traced his ways and procedure in the University I shall now follow him into the Country In Sept. 1602. he was by the cleer providence of God without concurrence of the plottings or contrivances of cunning or infinuating friends fairly and freely called to a Pastorall charge of a great Flock at Wrington a market Town in the County of Sommerset being presented thereunto by that Honourable and famous Knight Sir Arthur Capel of Little Hadham in Herdford shire Great Grandfather to the Lord Capel now living His setling there There did he in obedience to this Call forhwith settle himself and immediately set upon the work for which he was sent to instruct and turn unto righteousnesse that great people who had never before tasted the blessing of a preaching Minister or ministery among them which therefore required the greater skill and industry of the spirituall Husbandman to manure and manage such an uncultured plot So that he was to them if not to the whole Country adjacent the first that by preaching of the Gospel brought religion into notice and credit and discovered the heavenly Canaan before to most of them a Terra incognita and thereby left them much richer both in spirituals and temporals in so much that he might at length in a proportion say of that place as once Augustus of Rome Lateritiam reperi marmoream reliqui His Moderation Having thus pitched fixed his Pastorall staffe as he never sought higher or other earthly preferments though his capacity and credit to attain greater things were well known to be great so he never accepted of any additions or accessions of maintenance or honour although honourably proffered by Persons able to advance him The course of his Ministery Touching the course of his Ministery and carriage his proceedings were correspondent to his beginnings yea his workes most and best at last For as he preached so he practised His whole life being but one continued Commentary upon his Doctrine and an exemplary Sermon consisting of living words or of words translated into works as I shall further shew in due place Few men ever came into a place with greater expectation which yet he not only satisfied but exceeded Few men could draw after them that affection and admiration which yet were deservedly increased rather then diminished even to his last among all that had learned Christ in humility and truth His behaviour to the seduced And as for those few silly seduced ones that being carryed away by a Spirit of giddinesse through the secret and subtile insinuations and whisperings of false Teachers in corners who with as much ignorance as confidence lowbell the simple by portentous words and phrases abhorrent from christian religion sobriety truth and which wise men lament while fools ignorant of the depths and methods of Satan applaud and admire towards his last endeavoured in their vertiginous fits to eclipse his splendor yet his pious and affectionate Essays to reclaim them with the spirit of meeknesse and his fervent prayers and yearning bowels for their reducing turned all their revilings to his greater lustre and glory among all that were able to discern of things that differ and willing to approve the things that are excellent His Marriage Not long after his first setling in his charge he happily married a wife of his own Tribe heart the eldest daughter of that Reverend M. Walsh a holy Minister in Suffolke a great and rare Light in his time and famous for his ministeriall labours his fervent zeal and abundant charity She was a very prudent and gratious woman a most loyall loving and tender wife zealous and active for his incouragement credit comfort in all things especially in his ministery to which she constantly and cordially bore so much respect and reverence as did much quicken and inlarge him in the work of the Lord and was continually studious and carefull to ease and free him of all emergent avocations and businesses of ordinary concernment that he might more freely follow what his soul most delighted in his diviner imployments and himself and friends in his necessary relaxations In a word her behaviour was and still is such as becometh holiness a teacher of good things to the younger women and to her family a worthy pattern and a great promoter of godlinesse in all that conversed with her and to her husband a meet helper indeed all the days of their conjugall relation Children he left none beside those spiritually begotten unto Christ by the Gospel His printed works The issues of his brain and heart made publick were onely these first that exquisite and accurate Guide to true blessedness so often re-printed and so highly esteemed by all that read it through with understanding and care Then at severall times he gave way to the printing of four occasional and select Sermons viz. The Waking Sleeper The Ministeriall husbandry The discovery of the Heart and Death subdued His Characters never finished That wherein he had taken most pains which yet never saw the light was an excellent Treatise wherein his main design in very apposite and acutely distinguishing Characters was to lay open not those more