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A57163	A sermon touching the use of humane learning preached in Mercers-Chappel at the funeral of that learned gentleman, Mr. John Langley, late school-master of Pauls School in London, on the 21 day of September, 1657 / by Ed. Reynolds ...	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1658 (1658)	Wing R1287; ESTC R9227	19,525	40

excellent men remaining out of whom some reparation may be made of so great a damage yet still I look on the departure of this man as if the middle and most precious Stone in a rich Iewel should drop out which though many others remain in cannot but be greatly missed and bewailed Moses was unto the people of Israel Poedagogus ad Christum as the Apostle speaks of the Law Gal. 3.25 and of other Teachers 1 Cor. 4.15 And although he were so great a man as no other Prophet much less ordinary person could parallel Numb. 12.6 7 8. yet there may be resemblance where there is not equality Give me leave to make the comparison in several particulars Three of which we have in the Text Moses was Learned and Mighty in word and deed in which Three consisteth the excellency of a Teacher and therefore the same is noted of Christ the great Prophet of the Church Luke 24.19 Act. 1.1 Learning qualifieth the Teacher Word and Work Doctrine and Life Institution and Example leadeth and directeth the Schollar And so Homer describeth Phaenix the Master and Instructer of Achilles {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} First Our dear Brother was a Learned man Learned in the whole Body of Learning not onely an excellent Linguist and Grammarian Historian Cosmographer Artist but a most judicious Divine and a great Antiquary in the most memorable things of this Nation Into whatsoever parts of the Land he travelled he was able to refresh and to instruct his Fellow-travellers in the most remarkable particulars of every Country Pausanias was not more accurate in the description of Greece then he of England And I have heard that he had it sometimes in his thoughts to have published some thing in this kind He was a man of a solid Iudgement he always spake è sulco pectoris and I have not without very great satisfaction heard him give his Notions upon difficult places of Scripture and Arguments of Divinity in ordinary discourse as if he had elaborately studied them Secondly He was mighty in Word able out of a full Treasury and Store-house of Learning to bring forth both new and old I never knew any learned subject spoken of in his company wherein he was not able most dexterously to deliver his opinion He was a man of a copious Discourse but withal so solid and judicious as did ever delight his auditors never weary them As Livie said of Cato Natum ad id diceres quodcunque ageret we may say of him Doctum in hoc uno crederes quodcunque diceret Thirdly He was as Moses a Worker as well as a Speaker he was not a barren Fig-tree that had leaves without fruit nor a tinckling Cimbale noise without love he taught by his Life as well as by his Learning Verbis tantum philosophari non est doctoris sed histrionis as he said and dicta factis deficientibus erubescunt saith Tertullian And indeed he was a man of fixed and resolved honesty and wondered in his sickness what men did learn Christianity for if it were not in every condition to practice it and adorn the profession of it Time was when fearing whether his conscience and his Imployment would consist together he put himself to much pain and trouble to resign the place which he then held in the City of Glocester For the times were then such that many durst not take his resignation till at last he met with a worthy Gentleman who feared no mans displeasure in doing that which he knew was his duty Fourthly He was as Moses a patient man patient in his Business Moses was patient in his Iudicature from morning to evening Exod. 18.13 and he patient in his School in like manner Patient in his sufferings willingly with Moses bearing the reproach of Christ and not fearing the wrath of any man in comparison of the reverence he did bear to his own Conscience Patient in sickness composing himself with as an unshaken confidence to dye as in time of health he would have gone about any other business Fifthly He was as Moses a faithful man Heb. 3.5 most exactly answerable to the Trust of his place Opprimi potius onere officii maluit quàm illud deponere as once Tully spake It was hardly possible for any friend by any importunity to draw him from a most punctual observation of timely attendance upon the duties of his place And so tenderly fearfull was he of miscarriage herein and so sensible of any the least defect that in a former sickness he desired if he should then have died to have been buried at the School door in regard he had in his ministration there come short of the duties which he owed unto the School And this we shall ever find true the more active able conscientions faithful any are in discharge of duty the more humble the more jealous the more fearful they are of their coming short of it The fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest towards the ground and so those men that are fullest of worth are most humble and apprehensive of their own failings Sixthly He was as Moses a constant resolved steady man Moses would not bate Pharoah an Hoof kept close to every tittle of his Commission Exod 10.9 26. So was he punctual and unmoveable from honest principles Vir Rigidae innocentiae as Livy said of Cato He was of Polemo his judgment in this point Debere inesse quand●m mo●ibus contumaciam that men having proved all things should hold fast the best and be pertinacious in goodness Seventhly He was as Moses a wise man Moses was often put to the use of his wisdom to compose the distempers of a froward people and a masculine Prudence is requisite to tame and calm the wilde and unswaied humors of young children It is noted as a special peece of Socrates his wisdom that he did by his institution fix and reduce the wandering and vitious inclinations of Alcib●ades I might go on in this parallel and instance in the Authority Gravity Meekness and Zeal for the truth which were observeable in this our dear friend as they were eminent in Moses But I shall add onely this one thing more The great care which he had of the School at his last that there might be an able Successor chosen Of Moses his care in this particular we read Numb. 27.15 16 17. And this good man the evening before he died with great earnestness commended it to the Company by a member thereof who came to visit him that they should use their uttermost wisdom and care to chuse an able learned religious and orthodox man into the place naming one of whose fitness both he and the Company and School had had before great experience And so much were they pleased to honor the judgment and integrity of this worthy man that presently after his death they pitched upon an excellent learned man whom he had so providently commended unto them I