A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto

And now by this time I believe you will expect to have somewhat a more particular Account of this excellent young Gentleman, whose early Decease hath occasioned my Discoursing so largely on this subject. Not more largely than the importance, but much less accurately, than the dignity of it did challenge.

And now by this time I believe you will expect to have somewhat a more particular Account of this excellent young Gentleman, whose early Decease hath occasioned my Discoursing so largely on this subject. Not more largely than the importance, but much less accurately, than the dignity of it did challange.

He was the Eldest Son of Sir Charles Hoghton, of Hoghton Tower, in the County of Lancaster, ⟨p. 166⟩Baronet, and of the Lady Mary, Daughter of the late Lord Viscount Masserene, his very Pious Consort.

A Family of eminent Note in that Northern part of the Kingdom, for its antiquity, opulency, and interest in the Country where it is seated; and which hath intermarried with some or other of the Nobility, one Generation after another. But hath been most of all considerable, and illustrious, as having been it self, long, the immemorial known seat of Religion, Sobriety, and Good Order, from Father, to Son; giving Example, Countenance, and Patronage to these praise-worthy things to the Country round about. And wherein, hitherto (through the singular favour and blessing of Heaven) there hath not been that visible degeneracy, ⟨p. 167⟩that might be so plainly observed, and sadly deplored, in divers great Families. As if it were an exemption from what was so anciently remarked by the Poet, Aetas Parentum, pejor avis, — &c. But on the contrary, such as have succeeded, have, by a laudable ambition, and emulation, as it were, striven to outshine such as have gone before them in Piety, and virtue.