Excerpt from The Protestant Preacher, Vol. 2: Being a Select Collection of Sermons and Discourses, by the Most Distinguished British Divines, From the Reformation to the Present Period, on the Most Important and Interesting Subjects, to the Exclusion of All Speculation and Controversy So that the fenfe of the words amounts to this, that eminently good men, do commonly leave a good name behind them, and tranfmit a grateful memory of thcmfelves to after ages. Ifay com monly, for fo we are to underfiand thefe kind of fayings not that they are firietly, and univerfally true, without exception; but ufually, and for the mof't part. It is poflible, that a good man may foon be forgotten, by the malice of men, or through the partiality and iniquity of the age, may have his name blemifhed after death, and be mif-reprefent ed to pofierity but for the moft part it is other wife; and though the world be very wicked, yet it feldom deals fo hardly and unjufily with men of eminent goodnefs and virtue, as to defraudthem Of their due preife and commendation after death. It very frequently happens otherwife to good men, whilfi they are alive; nay they are then very fel dom fo jufily treated, as to be generally ef'teem'ed and well fpoken of, and to be allowed their due praife and reputation but after death, their good name is generally fecured and vindicated, and pof terity does them that right, which perhaps the age wherein they lived denied them. Therefore in the profecution of this argument, Ifhall enquire into thefe two things. I. Whence it comes to pafs, that good men are very often defrauded of their juft praife and repu tation whilfi they are alive; and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.