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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44071	The hoary head crowned a sermon preached at Brackley at the funerall of Fran. Walbank, a very aged and religious matron / by Thomas Hodges ...	Hodges, Thomas, d. 1688.	1652 (1652)	Wing H2320; ESTC R14545	20,718	34

they have come never the nearer to the haven of rest after all their toile and labour Whilst wicked men live they are farr from God in whose presence is life from whose favour is the comfort and crown of life they have bitternesse in their greatest sweets and death in their life The longest life of the wicked is but a moment compared to eternity the sinner of an hundred years old lives not so long but he may be truly and properly said to dye eternally To dismisse the objection briefly know that this is a generall rule of Gods own making that godlinesse hath the promise of this life and of that which is to come With long life will God reward and satisfie the righteous man and at last shew him his salvation in heaven in the life everlasting When it falls out otherwise as to temporalls 't is either rare and that losse abundantly repayed in eternall life or else 't is a Chastisement for some irregular and exorbitant demeanour of our selves or others in relation to us 'T is true as the Preacher saith that all things fall alike to all that is frequently 't is so and that sometimes 't is worst in outward worldly respects with the best of men of whom the world is not worthy Yet when it is so the fault is in good men themselves God is as it were constrained for the love he beares their precious soules to make exceptions from his generall rule which is doe well and have well both here and hereafter Say ye to the righteous It shall be well with him and here the hoary head is a crown of glory and it is found in the way of righteousnesse V. And thus are we come to our fifth head to shew what is that old age which is most honourable Although all old men as old men are in that respect honourable yet they are not all Peeres of the Kingdome of heaven Some Translations render the Text When 't is found in the way of righteousnesse Surely the Elders that live well are worthy of double honour honour these Elders for they are honourable indeed 'T is recorded Act 21.16 to the honour of Mnason that he was an old Disciple Seniority in the society of Saints as Saints should have honour The Apostle Paul makes honourable mention of the Elder Converts Rom 16.7 Salute Andronicus and Junia my kinsmen and my fellow Prisoners who are of note among the Apostles who also were in Christ before me But on the other side the sinner of an hundred yeares old is accursed Esa 65.20 Or as the Wiseman saith Though a sinner doe evill an hundred times and his dayes be prolonged yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that feare God which feare before him But it shall not be well with the wicked neither shall he prolong his daies which are as a shadow because he feareth not before God Ecclesiastes 8.12.13 Sinners may say though never so hoary headed the crown is fallen from our head woe unto us that we have sinned If you ask why Religious old men are worthy of the greatest honour I answer 1. Because these fathers are all the sonnes of the most high every one the Son of a King of the great King of heaven and earth and they resemble their heavenly Father they who are holy as he is holy And although Gods children are an assembly of first borne yet the elder any one is in grace the greater portion of honour ought he to have from and above his brethren If the elder by naturall generation and birth be to have double honour surely the elder by regeneration and a spirituall new birth much more We find that good Shem Isaak and Jacob though younger ones got the birth-right-blessing and honour before their elder brethren 2. Because religious men are the truely wise men and the longer and greater experience any one hath had in religion he is the more wise and therefore more honourable We read Mat 2.1 that there were wise men came to seek Jesus to worship him truely they are deservedly called wise men who ever seek Jesus and when they find him worship him They say the Turkes account all fooles Saints and many amongst us Christians account all Saints fooles But the holy Scriptures which alone are able to make us wise unto Salvation teach otherwise Heare the word of the Lord Job 28.28 And unto man he said Behold the feare of the Lord that is wisdome and to depart from evill is understanding And if we will beleeve the wisest of men Solomon the Godly man is the wise man but the Sinner is the foole as appeares by his opposing the sinner the wiseman Eccles 9.18 One such wise man may be a means to deliver a City Eccl. 9.16 and upon that accompt ought to be honoured Yea 2 Sam 20.16 c 'T is recorded that a wise woman saved the City Abel that it perished not in the Rebellion of Sheba the sonne of Bichri 3. Because these religious old men are most beneficiall are the greatest blessings to the persons with whom and to the places where they live they are the Walls and Bullworks of a City they are the foundations and pillars of a Nation they are the Shields of the earth Q. But what is the speciall honour which we must do religious old men A. We must reverence them inwardly in our hearts and outwardly not in word and in tongue only but in deed and in truth Whilest these precious Sonns of Sion our Fathers and Elders goe on in heaven-way before us Let us stand by them and stand for them and in nothing be wanting to them and when any of them goes up to heaven before us let that be the language of our hearts which was spoken by Elisha at the taking up of Elijah my father my father the Chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof 2. We must obey these mens Counsailes and directions Let 's make them under God and the Scripture our Oracles Let the counsell of the Elders be our great and supream Councell Let 's honour these as good Job was honoured Ch 29.21 c Let 's give eare to these let their speech drop upon us let us waite for them 〈…〉 man better then his mother viz his wife but he must honour still his mother before his wife Consider her grìevous pangs in bringing us forth at first her great paines in bringing us up and she that bare with the thousand infirmities weaknesses and follies of our infancie and childhood Let her be borne withall for some weaknesses of her sex in her old age according as it is written Prov 22.22 despise not thy mother when she is old And now to conclude this Use Oh that the great peace-maker after that our families have been divided Father against Son and Son against Father the Daughter against the Mother and the Mother against the Daughter would according to his promise once made to the Jewes Mal