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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

1. In the Design of God who hath contrived every thing for the Advantage and Encouragement of Virtue and real Goodness God hath said them 1 Sam. 2. 30. that Honour me I will Honour Now Righteousness in his Image and bears a great Likeness and Resemblance to him and as he delights to see it in the Sons of Men so he is pleased to Esteem himself honoured thereby Which made the Wise Man when advising to the Practice of it say hereby thou shalt find Favour and good Vnderstanding in the Sight of God and Man And it is the Voice of Righteousness Who so findeth me shall obtain Favour of the Lord. Pro. 8. 35. Yea it is Gods promise to the Righteous I will deliver him and bring him to Honour And David thus Is 91. 15. triumphed in his Abundant Sense of the Divine Favour Ps 92. 10. Mine Horn shall be exalted like the Horn of an Vnicorn I shall be anointed with fresh Oyl intimating the Honour and Dignity that he would conferr on him Hence such Men are mentioned in Gods Word with Appellations of Honour Abraham his Friend Moses his Servant David a man after his own Heart Nathanael an Israelite indeed in whom there is no Guile And their Virtues are recorded as the lasting Trophies of their Glory and Renown The Faith of the Patriarchs the Meekness of Moses the Patience of Job the Uprightness of Josiah the Constancy of Daniel to the Honour of their Memories and the Praise of their Righteousness which the Son of Syrach thus Ecclesiasticus 44. 7. Summs up All these were honoured in their Generations and were the Glory of their Times They have left a Name behind them that their Praises might be reported The Holy Spirit of God which inspired the Authors of Sacred Writ hath affixt Characters of Renown and Remarks of Praise to the Names of Religious and good Men And Honourable are the Titles of the Righteous equal even to Kings and Princes For when in one Evangelist it is said Kings desired to see Christ's day it is said in another Righteous Men desired to see it For they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Sons of God the Children of the most high and God himself disdains not to be called their Father And Christ the Son of God is become their Elder Brother since he came into the World for the sake of Righteousness and hath exalted Humane Nature to the highest pitch of Dignity by uniting it to his own Divinity And the Holy Ghost contributes no less to the Honour of the Righteous whom he condiscends to inhabit as his Temple And greater Honour cannot be done to Mortal Nature than to lodg so Noble a Guest to entertain God himself and converse with Divinity And if Righteousness be so honoured by the Sacred Trinity we may conclude its Esteem is great amongst their Glorious Attendants the winged Train of Angels and Arch-Angels And so Scripture tells us of them they rejoyce to Minister for the good of such Men while they live they receive the Souls of such as dye in the Lord with Joy and Triumph and transport them into the Regions of Rest and Bliss Secondly Righteousnes is Honourable in the Opinions of Men. I mean of all Sober and Rational Men and the estimate of all others I reckon of small value I know the Devil has long sought to obtrude upon the World what he taught Macchiavel to insinuate that Religion and Righteousness are low and mean Principles unfit for Governours and great Men and has hoped to laugh them out of Countenance and render them ridiculous by his Agents Prophane and Atheistical Men. But Wisdome is justified of her Children and in spite of Hell and Sinners Virtue has yet the Vogue of the World and Vice tho too oft in Fashion could never yet obtain an Universal Reputation and Esteem No 't is Vice alone that is sordid and contemptible 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plat. All Wickedness is dishonourable and Sin the Disgrace both of our Natures and Persons It brings disgrace to Families and wounds the Reputation of the Great Ones It stains the Blood and leaves a mark of Infamy on the Pedigree It Exposes Men to Scorn and Contempt and makes their Names odious to Posterity Whereas Righteousness enobles Men and adds Degrees of Worth to Persons of Honour and Advances the Reputation of the great Ones of the World Chiefly in three things First It makes their Persons valuable For 't is Goodness only in Conjunction with Greatness that makes Men truly Honourable and Power and Grandeur without Piety is but what the Apostle says of other Graces without Charity as sounding Brass and a tinckling Cymbal The great Titles of the World are but empty Names without the Addition of Virtue and they only have been truly great who have been exemplary therein 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is Virtue alone that is deservedly Honourable and hath always crowned its Followers with Esteem and Renown Heathen Rome was not more Famous for the extent of its Dominions than for the Virtues of its Inhabitants Which made Saint Augustin say of them that tho God would not give them Heaven because they were Heathens yet he gave them the Empire of the World because they were Virtuous So true is that of the Wise Man advising to the Heavenly Wisdome of being Religious Exalt her Pre. 4. 8 9. and she shall promote thee She shall bring thee to Honour when thou dost embrace her She shall give to thine Head an Ornament of Grace a Crown of Glory shall she deliver to thee Secondly It makes their Memories precious 'T is their Names that are delivered down to Posterity with Characters of Renown who have been Good as well as Great and they shall be had in Honour when the Sons of Fame shall sleep in the Dust of Oblivion and their Names rot with their Monuments 'T is true the Memory of the wicked is sometimes also transmitted to after Ages as it is said of Erostratus that he fired the Temple of Diana only to get him a Name tho it were never mentioned without that brand of Infamy But we may say of all such what our Saviour does of the giver of Offences It were better for that Man if he had never been born It were better to have our Names buried in Eternal Silence than to have them like Jeroboams made the Note of Infamy and the Monuments of our Shame But a good Name is a sweet Perfume and Righteousness makes Men Immortal and Virtue outlasts the Succession of Ages Let Solomon's words conclude this The Memory of the Just is Blessed but the Name of the Pro. 10. 7. Wicked shall Rot And again as the Whirlwind passeth Verse 25. so is the Wicked no more but the Righteous is an Everlasting Foundation Thirdly It makes their loss great and Vnvaluable Alass the World is not sensible what Advantages good Men bring and secure to it tho it be spared for