To theWorfhipful, his worthy friends ' Mr. Stephen Wat{on, Mr. John Geldart, Aldermen ofthe City ofT orb.!; and ~o Mr. tfhomaNisbet Merchant of thefame City. Gentlemen, <.Any favours and deare refpec1s t6 me and . mine, have been received frum yo• andyo 1m ; and as I would not be tmthankful, fo 1 know no , ~1 better WIIJ to manifeft it than by acknowledging it in thr:fi: few lines. what yeti have done' you have freely done; and 1 blefe G(}a for rmving your {pirits to (uch doings. I have but three ckildren in ,.u; And to every ofthem, every (JrJe o(yeu have contributed Jomethlng. One of1ou had fometimcs the charge of one, and amther of a!Sother, and athird hath yet theebarge of the third. At my la.ft coming to Yorke every one of you defired my palnes in a Sermon or two, 11nd becaufe ofmy engagements to yotl all, I could do no ie[[e than ebey yeut de fires, as if they had beeJJ C9mmands. At that time I preached the brief, or Epitome of the following book; I have nocr: enlarged it as you ~ay (ee, and ~[tech 11s it is) I dedicate it to your [elves . May it tend much to Godsglory,andyuur good,together with the Chnrche!, and I hAve aB my aejire. '- .' . Your Woriliips humble, thankful, unworthy iervant in the Lord. 1. .A.
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