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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

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