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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61272	The Christian's inheritance a sermon at the funeral of the Reverend Gabriel Towerson ... : preach'd at Welwyn, Octob. 21, 1697 / by George Stanhope ...	Stanhope, George, 1660-1728.	1698 (1698)	Wing S5222; ESTC R21949	16,995	33

and the attendance upon his Duty This I confess to One who thought it always common and easie for Men to talk like Philosophers but rare and difficult to be so in good earnest gave me that Idea of his Piety and Patience and Firmness of Mind which made me then begin to know the Man and raised my Honour for him ever after Lastly The only remaining Inference That of Contentedness with the Disposals of Almighty God in this World was likewise very visible and exemplary in him That equality of Mind with which he struggled under a narrow Fortune and a numerous Family many now present must needs be well acquainted with and a Temper so far from Greedy that even in things of right his own he rather chose to depart from what he could ill be without than have recourse to Rigour and extreme Justice He hath frequently declared that he wanted no increase of Honour or Preferment for himself but purely for the sake of his Children nor did he upon Their Account desire more than might preserve them from Contempt and set them above the Temptations of Want and hard Necessity And This was so modest and so remarkable in a Person of such Learning and Labour in his Profession that it engag'd Mens Wishes at least and Affections in his Favour Insomuch that He I believe was one of those few whose any Additions of Good Fortune gave a general Satisfaction and instead of envying every body who knew him wou'd have rejoyced to have seen them more and greater What now remains but that Each of us from hence gather such Inferences as may make this Example of Benefit to us by applying it to our own respective Circumstances More particularly 1. That You first the Orphans of this Deceased imitate his Patience and Meekness and Holy Resignation to the Will of God His Charity and Justice and great Industry The Generation of the Righteous shall be blessed and a good Man leaveth an Inheritance for his Children says the Scripture Even the best of all Inheritances the Love and tender Regard of him who is the Father of the Fatherless Think not then his Virtues are lost and buried with him no They will live and as He We ought not to doubt now reaps the unspeakable Advantage of them in Heaven so will they shed a happy Influence upon You on Earth too Provided always that they live in your Practice and careful Imitation also and keep you effectually from all things which would be a Reproach to the Children of such a Father 2. That You next of this Parish seriously consider how far you are accountable for the long and laborious Ministry of such a Pastor that a faithful and painful Guide of Souls is One very considerable among those Talents which God will reckon with Men for at the last Day And therefore it highly concerns you to recollect and practice those Doctrines with a Diligence proportionable to His that inculcated them For if so much good Seed through your neglect produce not much good Fruit the Ground assure your selves will be cursed and condemned for its Barrenness And the more you might have learned and done by the Influence of such Instruction and such an Example the heavier shall Your Account be and the more deservedly dreadful Your Condemnation 3. That We Thirdly who have the Honour of the same Profession do like him dedicate our Lives and Labours entirely to the Service of God and the Promotion of his Glory by setting forward the love and practice of Virtue and the Salvation of Mankind Especially that we make it our chief Care to establish and secure the essential and most necessary parts of Religion which the shameless Insolence and Impiety of the profligate Age we live in seems now as much as ever to require from us And though all of us cannot do this with His Learning and Abilities yet it will be our own Fault if we do not all attempt it with a Diligence and Zeal equal to His. Which if we do our faithful Endeavours will be accepted and approved even of Men but if this Expectation should fail us too and we find our selves unable to effect the Good we intend yet it is Incouragement sufficient for us to abound in the Work of the Lord that we are sure our Labour shall not cannot be in vain in the Lord. With these Reflections and Holy Resolutions let us commit the mortal Remains of this Reverend Worthy Good Man to the Dust In sure and certain hope of a Resurrection to Life Eternal and that if we be careful thus as you have heard to approve our selves God's Children we shall not fa●l in his due time to be made in the best the most beneficial and most perfect and glorious Sense of the Text Heirs of God and Joynt-Heirs of Child Which he of his infinite Mercy grant for the sake of the Same Jesus Christ his Dear Son and our P 〈◊〉 Saviour To whom with the Father and Holy Spirit Three Persons and One God be all Honour and Glory Thanksgiving and Praise now and for evermore FINIS SEcond Remarks upon an Essay concerning Humane Understanding In a Letter address'd to the Author Being a Vindication of the First Remurks against the Answer of Mr. Lock at the End of 〈◊〉 Reply to the Lord Bishop of Worcester The Occasional Paper Numb I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII Printed for M. Wotton at the Three Daggers in Fleetstreet