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TO
HIS MOSTj
SACRED MAIESTIE,
CHARLES.';
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By
the·grace of
G0 D, K
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of
qreat 'Britaine;
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France andJre!and,
VEFE:l'fDE'Jt.
OF THE
FAITH,
&c••.
Mo.ft Gracio1U and 'Dread
So
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E here prefent to Your moll
SacreJ
-~a;eflie,a
booke ofSermons.
VV
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need not tellwhofe they are, the
Ser~
mons are able to fpeake their
.Author~
VVhen the
Author
died, Your
Ma~
jeflie
thought it not fit his
Sermonr
·
iliould die with him. And though
they could not
li1Je
with all that ele....
gancy which they had upon his tongue, yet you were
gra~
ciouily pleafed to thinke
apaper
~life
better than none.
V
p...:
on this Your
lvfajeflie
gave us
a
fl:rict charge,that we 1houlc1
over
~Iooke
the
Papers
(as well
Sermons
as other
Traflates)
ofthat
~e"'verend
and
Worthy Prelate,
and print all that wee
found perfect. There came to our handsa world of
Sermon...
notes,
but thefe came perfect. Had they not come perfect,
we £h?u.Id not have ventured
to
adde any limme
u~to them~
left m1xmg apen farre inferiour, we iliould have
dtsfigure~
fuch compleat bodies.
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Your
~.ljefliesfir£1:
carewasforthe
Prejfe,
thatthd
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worke
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