Babington - Houston-Packer Collection BV4655 .B23 1615

The Epifle Dedicatorie. will I put my muff in him. And let that plaine Prophet flrengthen your Ladi- fhip ff Ill by his words to Kraig fifa and all ludah. The Lora is withyou,while _ye be with him, and if you feekhim he will be found of you, But if you forfake him, he rein forfakeyou. The ifike hatb dying Dauid tohis deere Swine to bee zÇhroe.!p.z. left behind him: And thou Salomon my Sonne, know the God of thy Fa- ther, and fettle him, with a perfc& hart, and a willing mind. For the Lord fearcheth all hearts, and vnderflandeth all the imaginations of thoughts . If thoufeeke him, he will be found o f thee, but if thou forfake him hee rmili cafi thee away for tuer. But what /peuld I fpeech, i know it well. Then flay 1%, and to you both (Right H.)ladde but this, that as duty hindeth, and many great ¿ honorable fauours both tome and require and charge me, 1 refl before my I chron, z3.2. God in Prayer, thatgoeth °tit of vnfamed lips, that it may bee thus with your Honors both :Hill Ifay, and thus more, thus more again, andthus ¡till, and thus both fill and more continuaky during life. That thofe words of endle/fe comfort may reach veto you in iudging day : Come yc blefled of my father, and pofl:ef%tternáll ioy.1f this poore tranci of mine may auaile any think -to this eff ect, it isyour Honors own,proceeded from your alone moll deeply bound for euer to be your owne, and therefore bold to it in this fort, becault. hz is your acne. It was begun to your Honors hearing, being that part of the Cate- chifme that thin fell to my courfe, both the law and faith hausng Beene expoun- ded before; the one.by my felfe; the other by my fellow that fotlowed: and be- caufe it could not at that time begone forward with all ;1 haue finte, as 1 could, laid it donne in this fort,ifitpleaf the LordJor the good of moi. Who alfball welcome it by thus much more (as they did the other) by how much it bringeth countenancefrom Your Honors both lint° them, and is a gift deriuedeuen from your felu es vista them. The Chri/lian Reader elfe whofoeuir, l f bon ñd wrong too much, iflfhoisld not comfortably hope, hewill accept it well; farce alarm!), bath (hewedhis loue in the like refpect. Therefore molt humbly befeeching you both (Right Honorable) to accept my dutie,ao weigh my heart, and to pardon my boldnefße, I befeech the Lord againe and again to multiplie his mercies towards you both,giuing honor heere, and honour euer in bts happy kingdame of eterriall comfort. Wilton. the i i.of Aaÿ. a 5 8$. Your Honors moil: humble bounden to death. GERVASS BABrNGTOIIie

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