Kennett The glory of children in their fathers THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES FREDERIC THOMAS BLANCHARD ENDOWMENT FUND The Glory 0jf CHILDREN//* their FATHERS. SERMON Preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul London, BEFORE THE SONS of the CLERGY, December the gd 1702. By WHITE KENNETT^D.D. Arch'Deacon of HUNTINGDON, Minifter of St. Botolpb Aldgate. puWtffjt at Eequeft of t&e With an Abftraft of the Royal Charter Erefting a Corporation for Relief of the Poor Widows and Children of Clergy-Men 5 and an Accompt of the Charities annually Difpos'd to thofe Pious Ufes. LONDON: Printed for HENRY BONWIQKE at the Red Lyon in St. Paul's Church- Yard , and RICHARD SARE at Grays-Inn-Gate in Hol- born^ 1703. io rhi s r ID .to; i bt stb -vAvr-T- u, ^ z. A 5x-,D e w a o 3 M IT K -F J;L ; o noDBs - .aV^ A V^ .^\;-?. : 7 : V) ir'iJin lr>To;i -rii lo i5r/ifcfA na cIH ^f s/ r ; . j-> t:.ib/I idt v -rs '.:m r r^?/-' f ^*oO "io jD K3*faJL ST E W A R D S Of the late ^ Feaft of Charity, For Relief of the Poor Widows and Children of Clergy-Men. Mr. Culvermll Needier^ Mr.JobnHigden, Mr. Thomas Mr. Walter Turner, Mr. Samuel Bracebridge^ C&pt.William Stevenage r Mr. Jofepb Bernard, Mr. Robert Weftky, Mr. William Gee, f Mr. Henry Bonwicke^ .Thomas Hugget. SIRS, AT your Requeft, this Plain Sermon was delivered in our late ANNU- AL MEETING, mtb afmcere Defegn of faying fome Duty and Service A a to 902861 The Dedication. to our Pious Corporation. And again at your Requeft, it is now Publiftt, with the /% Intention and Hope* of doing fome Good. As we are All fatisfied in your De- cent and faithful Difcharge of the late Truft commended to Ton , and in your frudent way ofchufing out Stewards wor- thy tofucceedTou: So We bofe every New Tear will bring a lify Improvement of lnte~ reft and Honour to this Body., unto which we belong. For we are AH bound to Pray and to Labour, with moft particular Af feftion, for the Peace of the Church, and the Profyerity of the Clergy : For Peace and Projferity to tbem, and to their Chil- dren for ever. Your Faithful Brother, * w; i\ ' j wVJs ',; ' and Servant, WHITE KENNETT. A SERM ON jV'^lMo' <--^'f*o = Preached before The Sons of the Clergy. Prov. 17.6. latter Part. ~ And the Glory of Children are their Fathers. Children s Children are the Crown of Old Men y and the Glory of Children are their Fathers. * MOft of thefe Proverbial Sayings have their Senfe Abfolute and Independent : they have feldom any Reference to what pre- cedes, or follows $ we need not enquire after a Connexion of 'em. They have been compared to firings of Pearl, or other Jewels $ that have their Symmetry and Order, and yet are all Loofe from One Another : And again compared to the fixed Stars in the Firmament, that make up a more unitei Glory by moving and fhining at a ftated Diftance. B We A Sermon preach'd before We muft take therefore this Verfe, and the very Parts of it by themfelves. Children's ChMren are the Crown of Old Men, i. e. k is the Comfort of Aged Righteous Parents to fee their Children, and the nu- merous IfTue of them, thrive and profper in the Ways of Piety and Virtue. And then again, The Glory of Children are their Fathers, i, e. It is a Credit and Sup- port to Children, that they are defcended of Honed and Religious Parents ^ Happy by Inheritance, with a Birthright to God's Bleffing. The ^jlory of Children are their Fathers, An Obferva- tion of the Wife Maia, not unfeafonable to Repeat, to Urge, in this AfTembly. We meet, my Brethren, in a near Relation. We meet as a more efpecial Hottjhold of Faith 5 as a Holy Seed ^ as a chofen Generation 5 a Royal Priejlhood 3 a Peculiar People. We meet here, not to boaft of our Parentage 5 yet not to be afharmi of it 3 to Recognife it, to Reverence it, rather to Adorn it. We here aflert the Liberty of all Orders and Degrees "of Mankind, and vindicate their common Title to. Ho- nourable Marriage. We here trample upon that Took of Impofed Celibacy, which neither We nor our Fathers wereoblig'd to' Bear. We here wipe away that Pre- tentioH of our Adverfaries, that a Married Clergy .can never provide for their Families $ but muft leave them expos'd to Poverty and Ruin. We here con- fute that other Calumny of Profane Men, that the Sons of the Priefts are a Reproach among the People; We are Alt here Prefent before God to Declare, toDe- monftrate, that in our Chriftian Ifrael, the Sons of Aaron and Levi have a Lot and an Inheritance not to be defpis'd r The Lord if their Inheritance. In a Word, We meet here to comment upon this Text in our own Cha- the Sons of the Clergy. 5 Chara&ers, and to illuftrate the Truth of it by our own Examples, that the Glory of Children are their Fathers. How far in Nature, ( i. e. in the Divine Inftitu- tion of Gaufes, and their ordinary Effe&s ) the Good and Evil of Little Ones are derived from their Parents, need not be nicely ftated. We know, that in the Tradu&ion of all kinds of Being, there go along threads of Life of the fame Subftance and Contexture with that material Clew, from whence they are drawn. In the common road of Nature, a good Tree bringeth not forth corrupt Fruit y wither doth a corrupt S. Lu. 6. Tree bring forth good Fruit. Of Thorns Men do not ga- ther Figs, nor of a Bramble BH//J gather they Grapes. Much more do Animals partake of their own Origi- nal : The Horfe and the Mule can have noUnderftand- ing above the Beads they come of 5 and fome Infe- ction will always ftain the Generation of Vipers. And indeed the Similitude of Animals in the Race defcend- ing on, is a wife Law of God in the Conftitution of the World. For were it not fo, the different Species of Creatures would by Degrees diffolve^ Confufion would blend the Mafs of Life 5 and every new Gene- ration would fee a new fet of Monfters. It is true, the Soul of Man is of a more feparate Nature, and has a Nobler defcent from Above. And yet, as God may well adapt every Soul to the Earth- ly VefTel for which it is prepared: fo the Operations of that Soul will fo continually depend on the Or- gans of that Body 5 that as the Animal Part is more courfe or fine, the Rational Part will dull or fharpen with it. W 7 hat is All Nobility, but the fuppos'd Effecl: of this Principle > What Ornament in Royal Blood it felf, but that the innate Excellency of Spirit is tran B 2 mitted A Sermon f reached before mittcd down $ and Generofity and Grandeur keep in Nature's ufaal Courfe ! Not only the Continuance, but the very Creation of Mankind had fomething of this Hereditary Honour. Why elfe fhould God fay in the Beginning, Let #r wake Man in our Image, after our Likenefs ? So God created Man in his own Image, in the Image of God created He him. And it is upon the fame Notion of a Filial Refemblance ( or what- ever the more Spiritual Meaning be, yet I fay it bears Allufion to this Senfe ) that the Son of God manifeft in the Fleih, is called the Brightnefs of his Fathers Glory, and the exprefs Image of his P erf on. Not that in the Defcent of Families, God permits Nature to have an unerring Courfe 5 For then Nature would be thought God, or at leaft we fhould look/ no higher. Alas, no fecond Caufes can be Infallible. The Almighty often breaks the Chain of Ufual Events, to aflert his Prerogative of governing the Univerfe. He flops or turns the ordinary Streams of Life. The wifeft Fathers (hall fometimes leave their Inheritance to Fools 5 nor can Piety and Virtue be more cer- tainly entail'd. A Rehoboam may be the Son and Heir of Solomon. A difiblute Commodus may be nothing Allied to the Soul of his Royal Father. And to compenfate for this inequality on the wrong fide; at other times, the Waters (hall rife as it were above the Fountain Head $ the Merit of the Children fhall far exceed that of the Parents : As among the good Kings of Judah, Htzekiah and Jo/iah, One was the Son of Wicked Akaz, and the other of Amon. Even different Branches have often fprung from the fame Root $ Titus and Domitian Brothers, He the Delight, and Thit the Odium of Mankind. And all thefe Varieties to exprefs the manifold Wifdom of God, who can fet bounds the Sons of the Clergy. Bounds to Nature, and can divert or drie up her mighty Streams. But this Part of the Subjeft does not fo dire&ly ftrike upon our prefent Thoughts. We, my Brethren, are related to a Parentage, that we care not to be called Great, but Good. Nobility of Birth and digni- fied Bloud, we'll leave thefe to the higher Souls, who adorn our Courts, and guide our Counsels, and tri- umph in our Fleets and Armies: Their Honourable Defcent will be a proper Glory to them, while they tread in the Steps of their worthy Anceftors, and en- rich the old Blood in their own purer Veins. I fay, we'll confine ourThoughts only to good and righteous Parents 5 Such I hope as Ours were 3 We'll confider the Benefits of being born and bred within the Fami* lies of the more immediate Servants of Cfirift, to fo much Honour and Advantage, that if we do not fad- ly degenerate, we may look back upon our Father*, at the Glory of us Children. We'll confider only thefe few familiar Reafons. " Firft. Our being Born of Religious Parents does " fuppofe our being Bred up to the more Piety and " Virtue. " Secondly. It will infer a Natural Inclination in us " to imitate the good Example of our Parents. " Thirdly. It will imply a Tendernefs and Care to " keep up the Honour of that Holy Order, from " which we are defcended. " And laftly. If our own Sins do not hinder, it will " Entitle us to that peculiar Bleffing, which God has " entailed upon the Children of Holy Parents. Firft, Let us remember, " that our being born of " Religious Parents does fuppofe our being bred up to " the more Piety and Virtue. As A Sermon Preached before AsNative Air often gives complexion and other figna- tures of Body $ So I think the Native Houfe or Family gives a much greater Tincture to the Mind, and to the Difpofition of the inward Frame. That Ingenuity of Birth which the Romans valued, was not an abftraded Notion of being barely born Free 5 but it included the being Bred well and wifely, under an Antient Roof of Honour and Virtue, redeemed and preferv'd from Vi- tioufnefs and fervile Temper. For what Alas is the Birthright of a generous Offspring, if they aretrain'd up in a loofe and diforder'd Family? If the Matter be too great for domeftick Cares, and the Lady be above the Bufinefs of her own Children > If they, forlorn Creatures, muft be given up to Hirelings and Strangers 5 or expos'd too long to the indulgence of Women, and theinfeftion of Servants $ to every fort of idle Fancy and of ill Example? What then is Birtfa, but the Pri- vilege of being Ruin'd > But how happy is it, when the Lot of Children falls in a fober pious Family, in a fair Land, yea in a goodly Heritage 5 where the confcientious Parents are a Nurfing. Father and Nurfing Mother to the Infant Souls 5 where the Little Ones draw in the Principles of Religion as it were with their Milk and their Breath 5 and infenfibly grow up in Grace andGoodnefs. Such may we prefume to have been our Native Happinefs 3 We were born Inheritors of Religion 5 within a Pecu- lium of Holinefs} a Sort of Sanduary$ a Habitation of God's Minifter, who being fet Apart to ferVe at his Altar, would continually make his own Houfe a pri- vate Temple. We remember that the government of a Family was a Duty of Bifhops, Priefts, and Deacons ; as preparing and qualifying them for the Service of the Church. The the Sons of the Clergy. The Apoftle laying down the laudable properties of a good Bifhop, defcribes him as the Husband of one Wife^ One that ruleth well his own Houfe, having his Children in Subjeffion, with all gravity. If by Elders in every x Tim -3' 2 >4 City we underftand the Presbyters, He puts in the fame condition that Every one of them be blamelefs, the Husband of one Wife, having faithful Children. And Titus 1.6. when he comes at laft to diftinguiQi the Deacons, He provides too for the fame Oeconomical Virtues 5 that they be the Husbands of one Wife, ruling their Children, and their own Houfe veil. As if all the Or- 1 Tim ' 3 * 12 ' ders and Degrees of the Evangelical Miniftry were to begin at home, and by well governing their own Houfe, fliould approve themfelves fit Governours of the Houfe of God* For fo runs the Argument from an incapacity in One Cafe to an incapacity in Both. I Tint. 3.5. For if a Man know not how to rule his own Houfe i howfiatt he take care of the Church of God . in faith, in Purity. Their Office is Holy and all the characters upon it muft be Hoi inefs to theLffrd.Wekrtow the Reverence due to them is founded upon this Me- lit of their Perfon, as well as upon that Dignity of therr the Sons of the Clergy. 9 tbeir Order $ when they are to be efleemd very highly vn Love, it will be in the moft Natural Senfe fir tfarr Works fake. It is an applicable Rule and moft eafy Leflbn to the People, Heb. 13. 7. Remember them which have the Rule over yon, who havefpoken to you the word efGod, rvhofc Faith follow, considering the End of their cenverfation. But how do we prove there was any good Exam* pie in the Families, to which we ow our Birth and firft Breeding, unlefs we Fed, unlefs we (hew forth and make Others feel, the Influence of it? Did the Exam- ple of our Fathers extend unto their whole Cure, and yet not unto their own Houfe? Did they feed their feveral Flocks, and forget the Lambs of their more peculiar Fold? Of all Graces and Vertues it is Piety begins at Home. There is no Man can be much a Hy- pocrite within doors. If our Fathers were at all wor- thy to ferve at the Altar, they were fit to Rule their domeftick Province, and being ftridly Incumbent on it, to bring up their Children in the Nurture and Admo- nition of the Lord, If we, my Brethren, grow Profane, We fell our Birthright, or we betray it. A Libertine, an Atheift, a profligate Sinner 5 No One will imagine fuch a wretch to have been immediately defcended from a Prieft of the Living God. No/ It feems to create a Sufpicion: It makes it fome queftion, whether fuch are Lawful Sons. For the true Heir can fcarce wholly degenerate from the undoubted Parent. Or if there be no ftain of Birth, there muft be an abominable Defeft of Education. Old Eli's Sons could never have been fuch a Reverfe of their facred Father 5 if Indul- .gence had not took off the force of Example ^ if his fatal Coldnefs had not let them fettle into Unnatural C and io A Sermon freactfd before and Rebellious Children. We caft a hard Refte&ion on our Fathers Morals, if we are carelefs of our own. We confefs them ill Men, or at leaft ill Governour$$ if our Behaviour be difagreeable to the Men and things Pertaining unto God. Does not the World believe, that we were conduc- ted in the firft ways of Life by burning and by finning Lights * If our Light be nowDarkneff, bow great is that Darfaefs? Nay my Brethren, but let it be made Ma- mfeft, that we (aw the Example of Sanftity and Habi- tual Devotion ^ For thereunto were our Fathers Sepa- Wed, Jnd Catted by the Holy Ghoft. The example of Gravity and Serious Prudence $ For fuch were the di* ftinguifhing Marks of their Profeffion. The example of In ctuftry and diligent Application to Studies ^ for fiich Was their Genius and their Duty : The example of Temperance and Frugality $ for how elfe upon a Little could they have- beftow'd that Education on us, which makes us here to be not A(ham > d.imp1y a tendernefs and care in us to keep up the ho- ** notirbf th.atHolyOrde^from which we aredefcendexL There is by humane Nature a value fet tfpqfi the ^feTifif of Condition of Birth: And though it 'may fernetimes incline to vanity, yet it does more often ;\.22. tlifpofe to an excellent Spirit. Even a modeft Apoftle 'C6uld boaft himfelf of this, that He Was Free-Sot*?;* And it isefteemed a.Privilege of all Chriftian Brethren, that they are not Children of the Bond-woman, but of the the Sons of the Clergy. f j | . ^ _^_ * ._ 0 Ife is- very Juft for thefe A&s of Providence to- fee ^s vifible ., Sons of the Clergy. viftble; in th^^i|ii^n. Church and Miniflry. ; Wheji pur great Mafter did diftinguifh upon the Receiv&g *S.M*. io. 4 r. Prophet's Rew^d, ;i He might mean it of temporal Com- forts, as wdr^S of Eternal Glory : and He might_jfi- clude th greateft Temporal Comfort, the Bleffing of good and happy Children. When God promi^d fo fievo Mercy unto Thousands in them that low Htte$ What a fure Title have they unto this Prbmife, who have approved their Love by their Saviour's Teft of it, by feeding his Sheep and hisLawbsJ [ W cni fcrA But to prove a Bleffiqg of ppd in ftore for the Seed of the^Faithful Minifters of Chrift 3 I wave other Arguments, I appeal to the Evidence of this Aflem- b]y. Without the fingular Bleffing of God, how ciould ye here make this Decent, .this honourable Ap- pearance? Are we fupported with Eftates obtained by our fathers? Not One perhaps of All of Us. Alas! tlier Clergy are, of all Profefljons wbatfoevor, leaft capable to raife Families, or to -tranfmit For- tunes to Pofterity. It were happy, if they could All allow a competent Maintenance while; t;frey live 5 this might excufe the want of a plentiful Remembrance when tney die. Were we bred up in the way of , our Fathers, and fo had the Advantage of their Expeii- cnce, Stock, and Intereft in the World, to pcrfue the Methods qf Gain prepared for Us > This indeed in other Myfteries of Trade and Bufinefs has been the fat Benefit of Sons, to tread fafely in their Father's ps : But This was none of our Advantage. FQW as, in comparifon very Few, are bred to the fame Holy Function. And thofe of Us who are fo bred, enjoy little or nothing of our Fathers, but the bare Funaion. Yes^ We enjoy their Prayers and their Bene- di#ions, and it is for the fake of Them, .that our Pla- ces A Sermon preached before ces and Stations are altogether theProvic and "the Goodnefs of God. It is to that good Providence we owe the Honour done unto the Clergy by the eminent Figure and Cha- rafterof theSons descended from 'em. Some of the wife Senators in both Houfes of Parliament. Some of the valiant Commanders by Sea and Land. Citizens of great Reputation and Ability, fome worthy in their Cotrrfes to fill the Seat of the chief Magiftrate, and One of unblemim'd Integrity already above thatC&e/r. ProfefTors of the Law, Men of Merit and Honour^ One the higheft Difpenfer of Equity, and of the Rules and Decrees of Juftice. Phyficians of very juft Eftecm. Clergy-Men of every Order and Degree: They that ufe the Office of a Deacon well : Thofe who have been ordained Elders of Priefts, faithful Stewards of God : And thofe who doing t.he Work of a Bifhop have took care of the Church of God in the moft difficult and dangerous Times. And one moft Reverend Metropolitan and Primate of All England^ the exemplary Prefident of this Corporation. And Many. Others here prefent are the growing Hopes of this Church and Nation. Among our Stew- ards for the fucceeding Year, the Son of an Archbi- fhop, the Sons of Bimops, and of other dignified Clergy $ who (hew their Fathers Affe&ion, and their own, in promoting the Intereft and Honour of this Ufeful Society. In a word, as TertttUian boafted of the Primitive Chriftians, that under all the Difcou* ragements of that Age, they fill'd the Fields, the Streets, the Camp, the Court it felf$ fo might w ; e., roy Dear Brethren and Companions, boaft owfdvts a little, that under many Impediments, We are fpread into all Places and Employments, a copious Argument of God's peculiar Care of the Children of his Faithful Servants. I have the Sons of the Clergy. 1 5 -I have now done with the few Heads I thoughtpro- per on theText, and have nothing to add But a feri- ous Exhortation. If we would have it efteem'd the Glory of us Chil- dren to be defcended from Holy Parents $ let us make our own Lives fuitable to their Charade r. Holixefs nnh the Lord lecometh the Lord's Heritage. Let the Spirit of Chriftianity reft upon us, as a Portion be- queatfa'd to us. Let a Zeal for bur reformed Eftablifht Church ( a Zeal guided by Knowledge, and govern'd by Sincerity ) be our natural Difpofition, our natural Affedion. Let Obedience to God's Anointed, and Adherence to our Laws and Conftitution, be our Prin- ciple, and our Habitual Pra&ice, our firft and fecond Nature. Let Unity, Peace, and Brotherly Love, be as the Seed fown upon our Infant Hearts $ let them at this Seafon more efpecially fpring up, and yield the Fruits of Good Temper and unfeigned Friendfhip. Let us adorn the Faith which ou r Fathers contended far $ and let us go on unto the good Works of which they fo frequently laid down the Doftrine and the Example. Mutual AfFedion and Beneficence are.the only Mean- ing of our Royal Charter, are the only Defign of this Day, a Feaft of Charity, an Annual Meeting of Friends, Companions, Brethren, of the fame Sacred Stock and Linage, related to the High. Priefl for ever, as of the Tribe of his Minifterial Inheritance. Let our Contributions be now as generous, as is the com- mon Spirit of the Clergy. How often have we heard \ our Fathers recite thofe Divine Sayings? It K more Llejjed to give than to receive. God loves a chearful Giver. Bat let us not barely anfwer the purpofe of a. Day, or of one Annual Solemnity. Let us be confidering the- 1-6 A Sermon f reach dbefore the Good of Pofterity, and projecting the Work of Ages. How (hall we promote the more firm and laft- ingBenefaftions ? We have had of very late Years a great Augmentation to our Legal Fund of Charity. Holy Men and Women have been Grateful and Boun- tiful 5 their Zeal we hope will provoke Many Others. How will ye beflr discharge the growing truft com- mitted to You ? Can ye, if poffible, go beyond the Letter of your Royal Charter? Gin ye find out away for the better fop port of the Poorer Clergy ? Can ye by any Means advance the infufiieient Revenues of r&any defpoiled Churches** Is it Pra&icable to found Catechetick Leftures in the more Populous Places, and moderately to endow them, and annex them to th Cure, to prepare the Youth for Confirmation, and fo for the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper ? Would not fome fuch pious Inftitutions be a great Help and Com- fort to the Minifter, and be the trueft Edification of the People? fii Or can we any way contribute to the taking off the Churches Scourge, and the Nation's Scandal, to the buying in of Impropriations ? Efpecially in Mercat Towns, where there is the gteateft Burden, and the flighteft Reward. Could not fome of thefe alienated TithSj or fome Portion of them, be recovered unto ,God, and to the Service of his Altar? Might not the incumbents be thereby encouraged to a more fedulous Care of Souls? Or upon this additional Supply, might they not be reafonably oblig'd to Daily Publick Pray- ers,, or to Weekly Catechifing $ as well as be more enabled to Hofpitality, Charity, and Publick Spirit? To take away allSufpicion of Sacrilege, and to render onto God the Things that were God's, muft be the , -Wi(h and the Defire of all Pious CJiriftiaas. And / what the SonsoftheClzvgy. what a particular honour would it >e to thisCorpora- toin, if we could but attempt to carry on the good Example. This would in great meafure prevent our Concern for the afflicted Widows ^ but they muft be now our Im- mediate Concern. Do the Several Colleges Ere&ed and Endow'd for *em afford a very decent Retirement to Mourning and Devotion? Can it be in our Power to protect and affift thofe laudable Foundations? Can we by degrees Encreafe the Number of them? Or can ftated Penfions be more ealily Infur'd? Or would oc- cafional Gratuities be more acceptable in times of preffingNeed ? But whatever be the method of Relief, ihould not the ftricteft Regard be had to Them who moft want and \ beft deferve ? To the Dcfolate, and Widows indeed, well reported of for good Works, that have brought up Children, lodged Strangers, and relieved the Afflifted, when in Times pad they were Able to do it. It is True, there be feveral Funds and Infuran- fce, whereby Minifters in their Life Time may pur- chafe fomewhat in Reverfion for their Widows. I condemn None of thofe ways, but I think we are the lefs concern'd in them, becaufe they are not (and by their nature cannot be) Appropriated to' Minifter* Widows 5 and they are at beft the Projefts of Equity, rather than the Inftitutions of Charity. I mention this the more willingly, becaufe I do imagine, that 'tis Poffible for this Society to improve fuch Methods, and to erec"fc fuch a Bank for thofe pious Ufes, as fhould afford a more effeftual Produft, and fhould be Reftrain'd to the Widows of Clergy-Men, and to the Widows of Clergy-Men's Sons. There be in this Ci- ty, in this AfTembly, Men of great Sagacity andfore- cafting Wifdom$ If they ever apply themfelves ro D fuch . A Sermon pr-eactfd before fuel) an honeil Defign, God profper them and the >'M rh$ jd amibor, When we have considered the Widows, fhall \ve npfc look with Pity on the Children** (hall we refolve tp take off frequently one or two hopeful -.Sons from a p(>pr Vicar, not.fo Able to difpofe of them? May we npt hope for fome Publjck School to be founded and endow'd, wherein the Sous of the Clergy (bould freer ly enjoy their Birthright 5 (hould^wlciiout thePincliing of their Parents, enjoy a LibeTaTEd^cation? And up- on the. fame Eftabliihtnent, might not fome entire $qms,and fome Annual Penfions, be allotted to remove and encourage them in any honed Courfe pf , to v^hich tjieir Capacity and Inclination fhall direcVem ? Shall we wifli at lea ft the Raifing of a College i One or Both of our Univerfities,. for a more fi ogul a r School of the Prophet's Sons, for their free A^dmiflion, and. competent Maintenance, till they are Able to go Abroad and ferve God in their Generation) (5od infpire ; fome one excellent Soul to lay the Founr datiqnof fycha Noble Defign.Till that bedone,can we alEordCopejConypnient Exhibitions, to be yearly af- fisn'd,toypungStudents,and yearly augmented ordinii- ^i(ht,according to a yearlyAccount given of their Stu~ .die> and Behayipur by Letters, Teftimonial from their VGjOvernours and Tutors? Can fome few Advoitforis be |)urchaft in the Name of this Body, and the Prefenta- : \c\^d^i^^diiw^ei^^^oq^ of, the C& gv, who jn a ftndious Academical Life^ \^ant o nity of being me wri unto the World ? Or can a running Stock to purchafe the Libraries of any Emi- nent Divinespeceafed, at their due value } to prevent the op.prd5on .pf the ' Wid.ow^ and to provide for by : diftiibutiag . out ' of the Clergy. yy ~Tl^^unf^M^^m^M nothing but fucb Materials to make an e them? Or can we propofe a Reward to forne one In- duftribus Sctiofar, for the drawing up an HifronVal Account of die firft Ereding Msfprpoi'-afton for Relief of th'e poor Widows and Children vf Clergy 'Men ^ and of the feveral Benefaftions- given to it, and oT the ma- nifold good Services done by it? C rarge forne other ntltiftf ious Yoaag Lives' or Charadters of the Sons of tt Men famous in their Generation, a -Tntfe" worthy be numbred by themfelves, in fonie diftinQ: Memdri; of them?* sgfiinoDfis has nredV Can we ext_6ij^^rf 1 qW^cfPftf 1 tIife ) G}^ighters of the Clergy ? Can we find no way to tr.iin up the Or* phans at feaftin a School of Piety and -Induftry under fome Difcteet rXeligious Matron ? Or can we prevail \vith feme ichtjler. Dr. Pi ter Gunning Bilhop -of Ely. Di^Robert $kiner. %iftK>pcj$ 7 or.ctfter. Dr. John Dolben Archbilhop-ofToryf. Dr. John FeIlJ$iftibp of Oxford. Dr.! Henry Bridgman Bilhop of Man. Dt. Edftafd Rainbow Bilhop of Gtrlifle. Dr. John Parry felhop of Oflbry. Dr. 'Benjamin Parry Bilhop of Ojfiry. Dr. Ezdiicl Ho'pltns Biiliop of .London Derry. Dr. HwttphryLloydRiQiopofBAngor. Dr. Gilbert Iron/idt Biihopof Hereford. Dr. Francis vyner Bifljop of /j, our great Benefa9or. Ad among the worthy Prelates now Lving,are the mpft Reverend Father in 'God'Thomas JLord Archbilhop of Canterbn- *Yke Right Itarerend WtUtxmfajd Bilhop .of lM>w/fir. T^owa-stord Biftiop of ^ E&wd Lord Bilhop ofGloxcefttr*, and William Lord Biihop ofC A Sermon freactfd before What can we do, what my Brethren can we not do, Jf tke r vyifer Heads confuk, and the willing Hands join Iwith 'em? It is my good will only to figgeft-y I fubrhit ihfe'forming of ways and means to thofe of You, who are Enlarged in Underftanding and Zeal .- who know thefe Things^ and $an labour to bring them to Perfec- tion. 8r)L! I uij I would fuggeflc One thing More 5 which is, that AH we who, bear this common, this honourable Rela- tion to the Church and Clergy, would always think Our fdti$ ^hemore AUkd, the more United to One Another 5 Doing all the kind Offices, that we can mu- tually beftow and Receive. That while we are Ready to do good unto AS Mm, We may more efpecially do k unto this Houjhold of Faith: by promoting every One his Brother's Intereft, Credit, Peace, and Happinefs, in this happy Reign. Then (hall we be the more Be- Joved Brotherhood, the more-Blefled Company, All the Members 0e Body in Chrift^ the more worthy to come unto the Heavenly Jerttfalem, to the General Af- fatv&oftbe Firfi-BorxiHe*ve7i~ ,Amen, -il?:,; .jr.>H -:-M 1 1 ^ . '|i;b:/'. L :::->^Tt hi 3W 7IE3 H^ , lfiw c .' " Abftraft of the CHARTER granted by His late Majefty King C H A R L E S II. (of tzisr Bleffcd Memory) for eretfing a Corporation for Relief of Poor Widows and Children 0f Cler- gy-men: Dated July i. 1678. HIS faid late Majefty having tatei ijotice. That divefs Charitaole Perfons had appear'd very forward in Contributing to the Relief of fnch of rise Widows and Children of Loyal and Orthodox Clvrgy- men as were Poor, and of the good Effeft the fame had 5 and taking into His Princely Confideration, the Great Sufferings of many of the Clergy in England for their Loyalty^ was gracioufTy pleas 'd by His CHARTER, under the Great Seal of England, to Ordain, Confti- tute, and Grant, That the Perfons therein nam'd, and their Succeffors r (to beEltftedas is therein exprefs'd) ttftc ^oDerrib^ oftlje cCbn^tt^ 03? Etl^f nfl^ca? 101= rotD5 anu CW&pi of Ctet^p men : And that by the feme Name they fbould have perpetual Succeffion, ami be capable to Purchafe, Have, or Take Mannors, Lands, and Hereditaments, &c. not exceeding the Yearly Value of Two thoufand Pounds, and all man- ner of Goods and Chattels, and to difpofe thereof . And by that Name to Plead and to be Tmpleadcd in all A&ions, e^r. And to Ad all other Matters and Things, as fully as any other Body Folkrck hi this R ealm can do : And that the faid Governours fhoukl have one Common Seal. And His faid Majefty did further Grant to the faid Governors, That there mould be a Prefident, a Vice- Pre- LT& i"! f )brbiS[ gn '. rridiq och nrlT ^igtfQtq Prefident, Three Treafurers, and Forty two Affiftants, ?vlembers of the faid Corporation, and that they,- or any Five of them, (whereof the Prefident, Vtce-Pre- fident, or one of the Treafuries to be One ) (bould be called Cfte CCW of 5lffiftmtt0 of the faid Corporation, -who fhpulid have the Management of all the Affairs of tjie faid Corporation,and fliould make Laws atidOrdi^ nances for the good Government thereof, as well in matters concerning^e faid Corporation, as in Ele^:- ing of Officers; aiid. Management of their Revenues ^ and Impofe. .Penalties ; on OrTenders againft the faid Laws, and recover the fame to the Ujfe of the :faid _ And therein k is appointed, Tli^t the Perfons therje- ,by Conftituted, to be the firft Prefident, Vice-Prefi- dent, Treafurers and irft Affiftants, (hould continue in their refpedive Places until the Second Tburfdajr in November 1^79. And from thenceforth, until there fliould be a new Choice made of Perfonsto fuccecd And that on every Second Thurfday in November for ever (or oftner if there -be occafion) there mould l>e a General Affembty of the faid Governors: And the major part of the Members then prefemV ought Cbufe a Prefident, Vice-Prefident, Three Treafurers, and Forty two AHiftants, who mould continue for tlje Year following^ and Chat in cafe of the Death of any of the faid Officers within the Year, others might be cJbofertat a General AffeniMy in their Places. - And that fuch General Aflembly might Eled-fudi 'other Perfon or Perfons to be Members and Governors of the (aid Corporation, as they, or the greater part of them mould think fit. That the President, Vice-Prefident, and Treasurers above-named, fhould, before they enter upon their Places, take their Oaths before 5 the Lord Chancellor, faithfully to execute tlaeir refpe&iveTrofts : And that all other the Members of the fakl Corporati- on$ before they a& as AffiftaritSy and- all faeceeding Prefidents, Vice-Preildents, TreafnrerSv Affiftants, and all other their inferior Officers, fhbuld take the like Oath before the Perform by the faid CHARTER mpowered to Adminifter the fame, And that the Lotfi 3rcf>iHl$op of ^r^irijap ef &l*fi &gep*c af tfje <^ieat ^eal of Engfanu, fyigb Creafucer, Lo|0 I5tfljop of Lonnoit, Laji * motiet, antitlje Lojti ^0aw of L^n&oitfof tbe ; time be- ittjr- fhould be Vifitors of the faid Corporation, and fettle all Differences about tae Government thereof, and touching the Difpofition of their Revenues. better to promote this Pious Work, it was thought fit hereby to Publifh this Great Favour ^of His late Ma jefty, and to fet down the Forms of Sub- fcriptions 5 and alfo how any Legacy in Money, or Houfes and Land, may be given 5y Will td the fakl Corporation. - ^^^ lo^crn 9ta ^p^STo^Klt ^risLSsi^Sl i*5Hl 3ljid3 II Qdij^afi^A ow) yjto' IB lo dassQ ?di lo 3lfi3 o &> fromfe t*$y to the Go- vtrncMrs of the Charity fa* Relief of Poor Widow and Children ofClergy-mtn^ ffc3n*tvf*- ^-"^ o* or beore the .rc^M JEiaast nty Hattd. >d-6J enoliol to ' ,?a jlnidt I rf J. dopromtfe to pay to the Go- vernor s of theCharity, for Relief of Poor Widows and Chil- dren of Clergy-men, the Sum of Sterling, at the two ufual Feaft-Days of the Annunciation of the Blef- fed Virgin Mary, and St. Michael the Arch-angel, by equal Portions during The Firjl Payment to be made at the next of the Feaft Days above- mentioned, thatjhatt happen after the Date hereof. Witmfs my "Band. This may be Inferted among LEGACIES in a WILL. Iff em, / Give and Bequeath unto the Governors of the J Charity, for Relief of Poor Widows and Children of Clergy-men, the Sum of ^:^' , , Pounds, to be paid to one of the Treafnnrs. ForDevifingHOUSES or LANDS. ]Tem, / Give and Devife unto tbe Governors of the Charity, fir Relief of Poor Widows and Children of Clergy men, and their SnccejTorsfir ever, aft that myMeffu- age and Lands Situate and being in All Perfons who have Collected any Money for the faid Corporation, aredefired to pay the fame to the aforefaidTreafurers, or one of them, or to give an Ac- count thereof to Mr. Thomas Tiflot, the Regifter of the Corporation, at Doftorf Commons, London^ to whom aflferibns who ftiallFleafe to promote this Charity ^ or have anything to Communicate concerning the fame, may dire& Letters as occafion (hall require. The THE Defign of the Governors, in publifliing this Accompt, is to let the feveral Be- nefaftors and Others fee how well the Charity contributed to the Relkf of the Poor Clergy-men's Families, has beeen beftowed by this Corporation. ca #L -y^s - ,-t^iJ^ A true Accompt of the Sums of Money diftributed by the Goverriours of the Charity for the Relief of Poor Wi- dows and Children of Clergy-men, for Nineteen Teart Dtted December 1 1 . 1 702 . OD OJ Anno Don. 1684. /. s. d: To the Widows of Sequefter'd Clergy-men 084 oo oo To other Clergy-mens Widows 101 10 oo For Binding Children Apprentices 100 co oo 285 10 oo _ _ 1685. To the Widows of feqnefter'd Clergy-men 099 co oo To other Glergy-mens Widows 1 29 co oo ' **'* 228 To To the Widows of fequefter'd Clergy-men 135 bo oo To other Clergy-mens Widows 1790000 To Children of Deceas'd Clergy-men 020 oo oo 334 o """ To the Widows of fequefter'd Clergy-men 144 oo oo TO other Clergy-mens Widows 170 10 oo 4 To Children of Deceas'd Clergy-men 029 10 oo 344 oo oo 1688. 1 To the Widows of fequefter'd Clergy-men 147 oo oo ' To other Clergy-mens Widows 206 10 oo ^ To Children of Deceas'd Clergy-men 045 oo oo . ./* . To the Widows of fequefter'd Clergy-men 138 oo oo To other Clergy-mens Widows 257 10 oo Td Children of Deceas'd Clergy-men 043 oo oo- '!r - 43 s i oe' , 5 D 6 1 x To the Widows of fequefter'd Clergy-men 135 oo oo To other Clergy-mens Widows 258 oo oo To Children of Deceas'd Clergy-men 057 10 oo 450 jo oo To ,tfie Widows, of fequefter'd Clergy- men 141.00 oo To, otljef, Clergy- mens Widows 296 io,qp To ^Children of Deceas'd Clergy-rnen 0741000 512 oo oo , 1692. To the Widows of feqtiefter'd Clergy-men 152 oo oo To otfyer Clergy-mens Widows 289 10 oo t To Children of Deceas'd Clergy-men 064 10 oo 486 oo oo To the Widows, of fequefter'd Clergy-men 120 oo oo To other Clergy-mens Widows 359 i o oo To Chikjren of Deeeas'd Clergy-meri 052 oo o 5" ^ oo 1694. To the Widows of fequefter'd Clergy- men 120 oo oo To other Glergy-mens Widows 414 oo oo ToChiUren of Deceas'd Clergy-men Q55 10. oo 589 io oo 1695. To the Widows of fequefter'd Clergy- men 123 co oo To other Clergy-mens Widows 438, ' po oo To GhOdren of Deceas'd Clergy-menr 055 oo oo 616 oo oo 1696. To the Widows of fequefter'd Clergy-men 117 oo oo To other Clergy-mens Widows 465 10 oo To Children of Deceas'd Clergy-men 06 1 ro oo 644 oo oo * 1697. To the Widows of fequefter'd Clergy-men 090 oo oo To other Clergy-mens Widows 425 oo oo To Children of Deceas'd Clergy-men 068 oo oo 583 oo oo 1698. To the Widows of fequefter'd Clergy-men 078 oo oo To other Clergy-mens Widows 597 10 oo To Children of Deceas'd Clergy-men 05 1 oo oo "" 1 ~C ?" 2-W : ^3-01? ! . 526 10 oo 16*9. T? die Widows of fequefter'd Clergy-men 060 oo oo To other Clergy-mens Widows 402 oo oo To Children of Deceas'd Clergy-men 041 K> oo 503 10 oo - 1700. To the Widows of fequefter'd Clergy-men 060 oo oo To other Clergy-mens Widows 4200000 To Children of DeceaVd Clergy-men 042 oo oo 522 oo oo ; u To 1701. To the Widows of fequefter'd Clergy-men 051 oo oo To other Clergy-mens Widows 444 oo oo To Children of Deceas'd Clergy-men 047 oo oo 542 oo oo 1702. To the Widows of fequefter'd Clergy-men 069 oo oo To other Clergy-mens Widows 525 oe oo To Children of Deceas'd Clergy-men 052 oo oo oo oo N*te 9 That there were many Petitions prefented to the Court of Affiftants this Year, from Widows and Orphans of Clergy-men, whom our Stock was not fuf- ficient to relieve. Note, That for Nineteen Years laft paft, the Stew- ards of the Annual Feaft have bound cut Children Ap- prentices every Year, with the Mony colle&ed on the feveral Feaft-days, which is not here reckoned. We alfo think fit to prefent the Condition our poor Widows and Orphans ( whofe Number increafes dai- ly ) to the Companion and Bounty of other well-dif- pofed Perfons that have not been Benefa&ors. We hope and defire, that it may have this effed efpecially on fuch of the Governors as have not yet Contributed, and other our worthy Friends, as well of the Laity as the Clergy, that they may be moved thereby to allow what they think fit. All Perfons who have already Subfcribed, and fuch as (hall pleafe to give any prefect Sum, or Annual Bene- F fadtoa, faftion, are intreated to pay the fame to the prefent Treafurers, Francis Edwards in Coleman-ftreet London, Merchant. Robert Edwards inTkames-ftreet London^ Ironmonger. Thomas Granger, Gent, in Plaifterers-Hall in Addle- Jlreet, near Aldermanbury, London, Or either of them, or the fucceeding Treafurers, or to any Perfon deputed under the Hand and Seal of any of them. Advertifement. . '-;, w A Sermon before the Sons of the Clergy, Decem- ber the 4* 1684. By Francis Lord Bifhop of Ely. A Sermon before the Sons of the Clergy, December the jth 1693. By Dr. Lake. A Sermon before the Sons of the Clergy, December the jth 1697. 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