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vantages while we live, but that doth alfo 

 furvive us, and abide after us when we are 

 gone out of the World, *Pfal. nx. 6. The 

 Righteous /hull be tn everlafimg remem- 

 brance. There is in Man a natural defire 

 to have a good Name perpetuated and 

 mentioned with honour when, he is dead 

 and gone; which (as a learned * Prelate 

 faith) is a fign that there is in Humane Na- 

 ture fome prefage of a Life after Death, 

 in which they hope, among other Rewards 

 of well doing, to meet with this alfo, to 

 be well fpoken of to Poflerity. And ano- 

 ther f Man among many tokens of immor- 

 tality, hath by fecret inftinft a natural de- 

 fire to be thought of and fpoken of in 

 after-times. Honour is a great fpur and 

 encouragement to virtuous Aftions: Eve- 

 ry Man (faith the forementioned Author) 

 that hath any fpark of generofity in him, 

 is defirous of fame ; and though Men care 

 not how foon it comes, yet they will be 

 glad to have it after Death, rather than 

 not at all. And (Bifhop Wilkms faith) The 

 more wife and virtuous any Man is, the 

 more care will he take to tranfmit a grate- 

 ful Memory of himfelf to future times, that 



* A. BP. TiUotfon j Bifliop Lloyd. 



