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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56121	A sermon at the funeral of the learned and ingenious Mrs. Ann Baynard daughter and only child of Dr. Edward Baynard, Fellow of the Colledge of Physicians, London. Together with some remarkable passages in her life. Preached at the parish-church of Barnes in the county of Surry, June the 16th. 1697. By John Prude, A.M. chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, and curate of St. Clements Danes in the county of Middlesex. Published at the desire of her friends.	Prude, John.	1697 (1697)	Wing P3881; ESTC R218353	15,546	40

Atheist and Epicure inferr from Solomons saying The wise Man dies as the Fool and both of them as the beast that there is no difference of them afterwards and that it will be to all alike hereafter as if they had never been for this is a most certain and evident Proof to the contrary the little Discrimination that is made here does sufficiently make out that there shall be a greater hereafter That the Soul of a Wise and Holy Man who undergoes the same Trouble and Fatality in this World that the Fool and the Sinner doth and sometimes greater is a convincing Argument drawn from the Justice of God that there is a future State wherein the grand difference of Mankind shall be settl'd and establish'd No! Tho' the one inherits the same Corruption with the other in the Grave yet shall he see a more blessed Incorruption tho' he sets in Dishonour yet shall he rise again in Glory And therefore our Royal Preacher in another place tells us Wisd 5.1 2 4 5. That the righteous Man who is truly the wise Man shall one day stand in great Boldness before the Face of such as have afflicted him and made no account of his Labours that when they see it they shall be amazed at the strangeness of his Salvation so far beyond all that they looked for And again we Fools accounted his Life madness and his end to be without Honour but how is he numbred among the Children of God and his Lot is among the Saints It is no difficult Matter I must confess to Persons who live wholly to the Body and do not aim at any useful end of Life to imagine that they are nothing but Flesh and Blood and that when they die their Soul shall dissolve and vanish into the soft Air But to think that those who have lived above the Body have govern'd themselves by the Dictates of the highest Prudence have benefited the World by their rare Endowments have been adorn'd with all Divine Graces and Vertues and have been the Glory of the Age they liv'd in such as this young Gentlewoman whose remains are now before us a Person endow'd with excellent Gifts and Graces to think I say that she together with those other Worthys departed this Life in the Faith and fear of God to think by their confessing the same common Dust in their Dissolution that they were actuated by no higher Pirnciple that there were no spiritual Inhabitants in those Houses of Clay which being of heavenly extract performed all those noble things and are now removed to their native Countrey to receive the reward of them is a thought which to any serious thinking Man must needs be as absurd as 't is uncomfortable Methinks it were to be wish'd that those which have been such Lights to the World besides their immortal State in the other World might likewise have an immortal Memory in this to justifie the Power of Wisdom and to excite our Emulation But it hath pleased Almighty Wisdom to ordain but one immortality that we might be more intent in the pursuit of it and not vainly expect or rest in any other And this brings me to the II. Vanity incident to Wisdom which is tho' the Memory of the wise be so desirable a thing to themselves and beneficial to Posterity Yet there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever seeing that which now is in the days to come shall be forgotten Certain it is that there is a hankering in the minds of all Men to perpetuate their Memories whether it arises from the natural Thirst of the Soul after immortality or from a Diffidence of a future State and consequently an endeavour to recover what we can from the spoils of Death And how industrious has the Wit of Man been to prevent this Some by costly Unctions and Embalmings some by lasting Tombs and Pyramids some have obtained to be Registred among the Stars and others to have the Months of the year to be called by their Names What Dangers have Men encountred to get an immortal-Fame to be incerted in the Annals of the world or to be celebrated in the strains of some ingenious Poet How fond are most Men of surviving in their Off-spring and what an Unhappiness is it look'd upon to have no issue to keep up our name Thus do poor Mortals hunt after shadows and very Spectrums Thus do they disquiet themselves in vain to purchase a little popular breath which when they are gone they shall be insensible of or at least unconcerned for and in which Falshood has often as great a share as Truth and Vice as Vertue For the World is not so curious to hand down what is excellent as what is surprising and extraordinary Thus he that set the Temple of Ephesus on fire is remembred whilst he that built it is almost forgotten and that was a hopeless as well as mean desire in Cardan tho' the greatest Philosopher and Physician of his time that the Ages to come might know there was such a Man not caring whether they knew any more of him But let a man's fame be raised from never so solid a merit and rivetted in Brass and Marble yet Monuments themselves have their destiny Time eats through the most lasting Substance and Oblivion blots out the fairest Characters We cannot hope to live so long in our names as some have done in their persons and those who have or shall have the happiest and longest Commemoration shall by the flux of time have it dwindle into a point and at last vanish into nothing It being in this respect the same with Time as it is with Place that the greatest distance gives the least appearance so vain a thing is a restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our Memories For who knows whether there are not more remarkable Persons forgotten than that stand remembred in the known account of time and the best of Men at last must be content to be as though they had never been as to this World and to be found in the Register of God not in the Record of Man Indeed to have the common voice of Men for the testimony of a worthy Carriage in the constant tenour of a Man's life and conversation is a desireable thing and of singular use while we live our Preacher assuring us that a good name is better than pretious ointment Prov. 22.1 both for the refreshing and cheering our selves and scattering a delicious fragrancy to others i.e. The Reflection upon good Actions is the feast of a good Conscience and the Esteem which our Vertue creates in the Minds of others excites their Imitation and brings back with it their Friendship and Assistance It comforts us in all the stages of our life and at the hour of our departure hence it stands by us allays the Terror of Death and tells our departing Souls that we shall die desir'd and that our Memories shall be preserved sweet by all