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Title:  Abrahams decease A meditation on Genesis 25.8. Deliuered at the funerall of that worthy seruant of Christ, Mr. Richard Stock, late pastor of All-Hallowes Bread-street: together with the testimonie then giuen vnto him. By Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.
Author: Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.
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meanes to draw on many, who . Ibid. Qu e∣rimobten pret, . 235. . Aristot. Ethic. lib. 10. cap. 1. . by the one alone paraduenture had not easily beene wonne. In a word; for his teaching, I doubt not but that they will giue him the best testimony that heard him oftest; and for his life they that knew him best. For he was not a flash; one of those that shew all in a Ser∣mon, or that spend all vpon some one curious good worke, that they minde to make their Master-piece. But both in his life and teaching he held on such a tenor, that the more men, Vt enim de pictore, scalptore, fictore nisi artifex iudicare; ita nisi sapiens non potst perspicere sapientem. Plin. l. 1. epist. 10.wise and iudicious at least, were acquainted with either, Miror magis, quô magis intelligo. Idem de Euphrate ibid. the more they reuerenced and admired him for either.There are two things (saith one) that make a compleat man.. Isid. l. 2. ep. 131. . Ibid. ep. 175. ex. Mat. 10. 16.ntegritie and Iudgement: the one whereof but . Idē ibid. Nō est vera simplicas, nisi animiocul, et plus sit, qui fallere nolit, et cantus sit, quo falli non possit. Bern. de praecept. & dispens.lame and maimed without the ; and in many oft they doe not meet. But an happy coniunction of them both was there in this our Brother. For the proofe whereof I may well referre my selfe to the iudgement, both of those that so frequently desired to make vse of him, for the ouersight of their last wils, and for his assistance by way of direction, in the disposing of their estates: (and we know all, how cautious men are wont to be in that kinde:) As also of those reuerend Bre∣thren, of the Ministerie as well as other, who, ei∣ther 0