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A48361	A sermon preach'd at the anniversary meeting of the sons of clergy-men in the church of St. Mary-le-Bow, on Thursday, December the 7th, 1693 printed at the request of the stewards of the feast, to whom it is humbly presented / by Edward Lake ...	Lake, Edward, 1641-1704.	1694 (1694)	Wing L194; ESTC R2388	11,284	33

of Faith and Repentance and good Works c. If thou put them in remembrance of these things 1 Tim. 4.6 thou shalt be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a faithful Minister of Jesus Christ and as such worthy hereafter to be remembred which directs me to consider the Duties here recommended to us and 1. Remember Men naturally desire to be remembred tho' dead and gone to have their Names perpetuated to after-Ages nor has there been wanting among the Heathen such who tho' not inspired with the Hopes of a future Reward yet have taken care to have their memories conveyed to Posterity Witness the Egyptian Pyramids as also certain Statues among the Greeks with the Names of their Founders inscribed on them This they impetrated as a Favour from their Gods this they accounted a Blessi●g to have themselves remembred after Death And indeed so it is for otherwise God would never have assured it to righteous men That they should be had in everlasting remembrance Psal 112. That their righteousness should remain for ever and their memories never perish Our Saviour hath said it of Mary Magdalen Mat. 26.13 That wheresoever his Gospel should be preached that which she had done should be spoken of for a memorial of her Whereas God hath threatned the Wicked with Excision even of their very Names that their memory should perish or if it did out-live them it should rot and as we say stink above ground or like Lot's Wife's Pillar which remained to Posterity a Spectacle of Divine Vengeance for many Generations so that they who passed by wagged their Heads at it But the memory of the Just shall be blessed i. e. so far as known and God calls on us who survive them to take care that it be so Remember them recollect those Gifts and Graces with which God had so remarkably endowed them Acknowledge to his Glory what good they have done us remember them as our spiritual Parents and Benefactours as those who laboured and watched for the good of our Souls think of them with Delight who have put off their Flesh and are passed this Stage of sin and sorrow to their everlasting Homes speak of them to their praise for which God did so eminently qualify them This hath been the Practice of all Ages even of such as never heard of Christ Let us now praise famous Men Ecclus. 44.1 said the wise Syracides and our fathers that begat us The Lord hath wrought glory on them through his great Power from the beginning such as did bear Rule in their Kingdoms men renowned for their Power Leaders of the People By their Counsels and by their Knowledge of Learning meet for the People wise and eloquent in their Instructions And again 7. v. All these were honoured in their Generations and were the Glory of the times There be of them that have left a Name behind them that their Praises might be reported And again 10. v. Mereisul men whose righteousness hath not been forgotten Their seed shall remain for ever and their glory shall not be blotted out And again Their bodies are buried in Peace 13. v. but their Name liveth for evermore The people will tell of their wisdom and the Congregation will shew forth their praise How very exact too were the Primitive Christians in honouring the memories of their Martyrs and deceased Bishops For this were the Diptychs read in the Church which were two Leaves or Tables on the one whereof were written the Names of those pious Men and Confessors who were yet alive and on the other those who had died in the Lord and were at rest For this were Altars erected over their Graves For this were their Pictures hung up in their private Shops and Houses For this were Churches though dedicated to God made to bear the Names of Saints to preserve their Memories For this were their Feast-days celebrated Panegyricks made on them and their Lives written St. Basil wrote the Life of Barlaam who was but a poor Shepherd Nazianzen of Basil and others which he saith he left to Posterity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as a common Table of Virtue for all the World to look on We do not read of any Worship in those times addressed to them this were to dishonour not only that God who crowned them but themselves also for Honour where it is not due is a kind of contumely we do not read of any Prayers for them to be delivered out of Purgatory nor of adoring their Reliques nor of Prostration to their Images nor of Pilgrimages to their Shrines nor of saying Masses nor of making Vows or Oblations unto them as Cornelius à Lapide and others urge even from this very Text. No they only prayed as we doe for a glorious Resurrection for their perfect Consummation and Bliss both in Body and Soul in his eternal and everlasting Kingdom But the greatest Honour which they did them was to follow or imitate them which is the second Duty inculcated in the Text. The very Remembrance of good men is a Degree an Approach to Holiness otherwise St. Paul would not as in our Text have required it as he did in another place of this Epistle call upon his Hebrews Heb. 10.24 to consider 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 narrowly to mark and observe and study one another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to whet and sharpen each others Affections now perhaps dull'd with vain and impertinent Speculations to provoke unto love and to good works By Virtue of this Imitation it is that we become influenced nay ecstafied with the Spirits of those who are gone before us that we become meek with Moses patient with Job chast with Joseph devout with David that with our Apostle Phil. 3.13 we forget those things which are behind and press forward to those things which are before 2 Tim. 4.6 that with him we are ready to be offered up yea are at the Stake or on the Rack or at the Block with the Holy Martyrs Thus when in the course of Christianity we doubt or dispute with our selves which way to take we then deliberate and advise what Paths they trod who have already departed this Life in the Faith and Fear of God and especially they who have had the rule over us Holy Bishops or our good Fathers would they have turned their Backs in the Day of Battel and been Cowards at the sight of a glittering Spear Would they have struck Sail at every Pyrate's Threat Would they have basely and unworthily betray'd their Holy Faith With what Courage with what Resolution with what Patience were they Endow'd And indeed as I intimated e'en now this is the highest Honour we can do them to propound them to our selves as our Patterns and to follow them in their constant Love to God to Religion and to all Mankind whatsoever we suffer for it This was the due Practice of Holy Men of Old Laudamus Glorificamus Admiramur c. to use