The Epistle Dedicatorie. foriable and benefe;iall to:houfands that liue vnder you , honorable and good, to emery man (in a word) fo afec1ed and dtfpofed,as they that ar already in all datifiell right your owne, Wray fo remaine: and they that are not,by fa, clieere- full vfageand Honorable vertue maydaily be added and woon vnto you. Wiser. for ( my good Lord) with all Chriflian care continue your happy court in the waits of the Lord, and what Salomon /with, remember often : Mare counfell and receiue infiruction ( meaning form the Lord) for they Pad make a man wife in time. Yea they f loall fo eflablifb a man in the Gies of the Lord, as that his feed Pall inherit the earth , and his name neuer be blotted out. Continue al/o that Chrifgian care to other the defolatefockes o f the Lords people , t hat with fo great and iu fl praifcyour Honor hack f hewed of late¡ many waies. eina among, AB, or rather eue» abate them all (as many fpecial l caufes binde me to w:fh ) I molt humbly and heartily begge the fame to your 7owneof Cardiffe, vnable peradventure in many things, but vaa illing I hope in nothing, to deferue both fanour and furtherance in all caufestending vittogood. Among¡' whom your Lo. in zeale to their good hath left me, and to whome for yoat Lo. fake I vow my felfe tf Imay doe them good. Yet not more to them then to the whole country, and emen themeant¡, member therein , they being all ingenerall fo deere veto your Lo. as manyprivatef echeshauedeclared, what my power inableth mee vnto,both for dutie voto your Honor, and affection to themfelues, Itrmg they ,all esser ßnde in me, and ar faithfull anheart withal/as tuer had flraner a- mongfl them. And if your Lo. Pall vatic hfafe thereuntoyour Honorable and loatngasfi¡íante in their worldly caufes when they haste neede, then may they fay their affections are thrift well bellowed vpon your Ho. and their ferutce daeten thoufand times, ifit were more. Prefently I haueindeuored, bothfor them and others, to lay donneabriefe collection offuchthitogesconcerning the Commandements of God, asin larger manner both beforeyour Lo.and them were handled. And I prefume to offer the fame to your Lo. both formy primate duty, being bound, if ewer was any , to be thankful/ , and that a l/ò it comming voto them vnder the fbadow and f bietd ofyour Lo. protection, whom they fo re. raerence and honor, may b.= the more welcome and the better accepted of. For the Chriftian reader el)e where , that Pall weigh my drift, and confider the place wherosmio of ecially"intend it , I a ffure my heart of his godly and lotting accep- tance, notwithlianding the matter path beetle handled by more able inflru- ments by much, hecatfe it is act in the fame manner ,and the Lord may be glorified in all mensguifts. Onely therefore of your Lo. I now molt humbly beg, that with wonted futotir this fmall trauell maybe accepted, and that vn. der your Lo. name ¡may leant it to the world,as a f peaking witneff e (when I am dead) ofmy thankful' heart for all your Honorable goodnes to me, which bath bene fuck, as I willo may incourage vpon my fpeech any that eater Pall be there- tome requited to faeceedhim in his place, who now enioyeth it. So the Lord of power and merciemultiplie his Spirit vponyour Lo. with all the hle/fed fruits of thefame,and grant you euer that Grace, that bath promife both of this life, and that which is to come, vimen. From London this r. of December. Your Lordfhips moll humble bounden to death, ... GBHVASE DABING7ON
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