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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67183	Righteousness encouraged and rewarded with an everlasting remembrance in a sermon at the funeral of the right worshipful Sir Roger Bradshaigh of Haigh, Knight and Baronet, who died at Chester on Monday, March 31, and was buried at Wigan, Friday, Apr. 4, 1684 / by Richard Wroe ...	Wroe, Richard, 1641-1717.; Shaw, S. Elegy upon Sir Roger Bradshaigh.	1684 (1684)	Wing W3727; ESTC R38322	16,793	40

frequent Instances of Humane Frailty and oftentimes sad ones too Witness that which now lyes before us One who ought to be had in Remembrance and will certainly be so among all that knew his Worth who are no fewer at least then they that knew his Person One whose loss cannot easily be forgotten being as generally lamented now he is dead as he was universally beloved while he was alive One whose loss is as extensive as was his Influence and may be Read in the sorrowful and dejected looks of all here present And were but Tears sufficient to enshrine his Memory your Orator could more easily bear a part than in the just Tribute of his deserved Praise which he can better conceive then express but is too much affected with the inward Sense to be able to give a Description of it He had long since learnt but never till now so intimately experienced that Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent That little Passions easily find vent and disburthen themselves whilst great Occasions of Grief and Sorrow lye long smothered and cannot without difficulty be exprest And therefore I hope my Concern may Apologize for me in what I shall fall short tho I shall endeavour to enbalm his Memory after the Modern Invention without Mangling Cutting or Wounding Now that we may hear him tho dead yet speaking to us and his Example may be however Silent yet prevailing Oratory with us I shall first enforce the Arguments which these Words contain to Virtue and Piety that we may learn to imitate the Righteous in his Life that so we may share with him in his Remembrance after Death The Words I take to be plain and intelligible and suppose that every one that is but meanly Conversant in Scripture knows that Righteousness especially in this Book of Psalms and that of Proverbs is taken sometimes in a general and complex Notion as comprehensive of all Religion sometimes in a particular and restrained Sense for the Virtue of Charity and Liberality I shall discourse of it chiefly in its general Acception The Words may be understood two ways either First As an Argument to perswade to Noble and Virtuous Vndertakings Or Secondly As a Description of that lasting Glory and Renown which Men purchase by their Righteousness and Virtue Who would not tread the Paths of Righteousness that considers that therein he is sure to meet with Honour and Glory And he that keeps close to those Paths shall certainly be rewarded with Renown and Praise So that consider them with Reference to our selves and they are a Spurr to Virtue with Relation to others and they are a Trumpet to their Fame We 'll first examine how cogent an Argument and effectual inducement to Righteousness it is to be had in Remembrance And next see how the Righteous Person has deserved it and in what Sense he shall never be forgotten I consider the Words as an Argument to perswade to Virtuous and Noble Undertakings in as much as by the Practice of Righteousness men certainly arrive at Esteem and Honour There is something of Ambition twisted in our very Natures which grows up with us and diffuses it self through the whole course of our Actions Ambition I call it tho perhaps it deserves a better Name being not the Vice somuch as the bent of our Nature our Natural Inclination rather then a flaw in our Constitution and does not debase but rather perfect our Nature Now this as it is most apparent in great Spirits so does it then produce effects Worthy of it self when it meets with a Gallant Temper and Generous dispositon of Mind Yea it often lurks where it is openly disclaimed and disavowed We have Stories enough to Witness how many Sparks of Ambition have oft layn smothered and raked up under Sackcloath and Ashes and how much Pride is oft concealed under the vayle of comely but affected Humility Yea the greatest decryers of Applause and Glory have oft been its most eager Pursuers and they that have writ Tracts against Vain-Glory have prefixt their Names to their Bacon's Sermon Fid. Montaign Essays Works lest the World should either not take notice of them or forget to praise them more or less it levens most Men who fain would be what they think they ought to be and so imagine themselves greater then indeed they are Men Narcissus like first fall in love with themselves and then the Pleasure they take in fancying their own Worth enflames them with desire that others be acquainted with it Thus a Secret Ambition Spirits Mens Designs and to purchase a Name sets them on Work To this the World owes its greatest Undertakings and its Worthyes in all Ages have here cast the Anchor of their Hopes tho they have sallyed out from distant Ports and steer'd divers Courses and their desires have all centred in this one point to have their Names inserted into the Catalogue of the Worlds Worthies and be enrolled among the Sons of Fame Thus many have attempted to climb up to the height of Honour that they may be in view of all the World Others have thirsted for Power and Soveraignty that their Names may strike Terror into the Sons of Men Some have Studyed to eternize their Names by Wisdome Others by Acts of Bounty and Beneficence Yea some have embraced Death that their Fame might Survive their Lives And too many inferiour Souls make themselves Notorious by their Vices and so their Names be recorded to Posterity care not tho they be the Brands of Shame and Infamy But he has made the Happy Choice who is known to the World only by his Virtues and is Famous for his good Deeds For 't is the great Prerogative of Virtue to be beholden to none but her self and its Praises are as it self Immortal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Virtue survives Mortality and lives in the Names and Memories of its Deceased Patrons and gives the truest Title to an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And herein lyes the Advantage that Righteousness gives above any other Pretenders to Fame and Glory that its Lustre cannot be lessened by any Tract of time but rather encreases with continuance and Shines more Bright and Glorious Whereas other Monuments of Fame are worn out and eaten with the Rust of Time or Withered with the Blasts of Envy and after a few years Consume and Perish So the Founders of Babel who said let us make us a Name and thought to eternize themselves by building a Tower high as Gen. 11. 4. their own Ambition had their Names buried in the Ruines of that Fruitless attempt When as Pious Abel tho Sacrificed on his own Altar to his Brothers Malice yet has his early Piety transmitted to Posterity and shall through all Ages be known by the Epithet of Righteous Abel The Favours of Fortune Riches Power or Honour may secure a Mans Credit while he lives but if he have no other Deserts his Fame will expire with him These might beget him Admirers who