I I Tothe Honourt~ble Sr. RICf-IARD HOUGHTON, K NIGEl T and B A R 0 NET, AND To his Religious Lady the L ADT S A R. A H. [~yne you both in one Epijlk, for God hath jopud )OU both in ne11rer bo?Jdl : and yet if I m~tJ JPeak_ll w~rd ap11rt to either ofyou. Detilre Sir, my dejirei1 that you llmongft .tbe reft of mJ friends would mak! (ome uft of this weak_ work,; 11nd as your [onnes11nd dmtghrers grow up, if you commend it to their praClife, I hope neither yoH, nor they will repent thereof. Sometimes JO" joyned with us 111 a member ofour fociety in the Lordr Supper at Prc!lon; the fame Chri/f is treated of here, th.rt J'lH received there; and if henceforth we fuall no more together drink of that fru it of the vine, untill that day when we drink it new in our Fathers Kingdome, yet we m11y ap.rrt all all within m, either on the death of Chrifl (which more ejjucitll!lr we rtmembred 11t hi-s Supper) or on a11y ot lur tr.rnfarJion ef ChrijJ, asthey are l.~ id lljure m in this d11ty of looking unto Jefus. Sir, 1 lay rhis part of Chrifh death 11t pur fm, if you plr11(e to t111(e it up wit~ bozh hand$ , and tru Jure it 11p in your he;~rt, llndconforme to it in your life, ir~ reJPea of ;our own felf I defire no m~re. And now det1rr .U.rd;~m, I h11Ye one w rd f or you ; nM»J a time -yeu h:~ ve ask!;d me when this wJrk,;would come uut, which brfore now I c~u !d not an(wer ]"'U 'But now it iJ out, I (upp1(e )'Oil will fir, de 11 roome fo~" it in your ftudy, ; a!fJ if i• prov"t'[o worJhy, that (ometimo ) 'JU will plef(e to t,,k§ •t in }our l-And, .md either in your ftudr, win your plec.fant w, d~J, /h tdl mak! any pr,Cfical ufe of it, th.1t is my dejirr nlfoin refPeEt of ru. I have kn wn your loves to Chrift, which you have mani re/ted hy Jour words and tearu, when you complaind that you could not love ChriU, as you de[u:t:d to lov~ him; il 535
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