Abel being dead yet speaketh

But Divine Providence otherwise disposing, it remains, that they who have known his doctrine, manner of Life, purpose, Faith, Long-suffering, Love, Patience, Persecutions, and affliction, do not suffer such a Light to be hid under a Bushel, but put it on a Candlestick, that it may give light to them that are in the House.

His Birth-place, Derby, we shall not detain the Reader at, ¹though a Situation in respect of the purity, and frequent Agitation of the air, attempered (in the judgment of the Orator) for the breeding of better Wits, Creatures are in their kind subservient; but, tis God, (not the air) who puts Wisdom into the inward parts, and giveth understanding to the heart. As the wise man and the Fool die, so are they both ordinarily born in the same place. The glory of every good and perfect gift reserved for the Father of Lights.

His Birth-place, Dorby, we shall not detain the Reader at, ¹though a Scituation in respect of the purity, and frequent Agitation of the air, attempered (in the judgment of the Orator) for the breeding of better Wits, Creatures are in their kind subservient; but, tis God, (not the air) who puts Wisdom into the inward parts, and giveth understanding to the heart. As the wise man and the Fool die, so are they both ordinarily born in the same place. The glory of every good and perfect gift reserved for the Father of Lights.

1. 1His birth.

Let it be sufficient to acknowledge both the place an honour to the person, and the person an honour to the place. What Basil sometime commended in the Martyrs, the same is to be looked at in our Confessor (or Martyr, which you please) namely, that his praise is not to be derived from his Country here below, wherein he was born: But from his Relation unto that Jerusalem which is above, where he was instrumentally born again, according unto Grace. The mercy of a good Descent which the joint-consent of all generations, hath always voted not to be the least part of outward happiness, God blessed him with from the womb. His parents being persons of considerable quality, and of good reputation. Their condition, as to the things of this Life, competent; neither unable to defray the expense of his education in literature, nor so abounding as to be a temptation on the other hand unto the neglect thereof. Crates the Philosopher would needs go unto the highest place of the City and cry in the audience of all the people, O men! whether go ye? why take ye so much pains to gather riches for your Children, and have no care to train them up, who should