TheEpifile Dedicatory. tills cannot be better difcovered then by love to Gods Miniffers, and a careful San&ification of the Lords day: andwhat Influence filchexamples have upon thevulgar is obvious to everyeye.I have read that Queen Eli abeth once riding progreffe into Suffolk., laid, that now the faw the reafon why that C,ountreywas fo well governed; for the obterved that all the Juflices, andGentlemen comingtomeet ". her,had everyone his Minit}er next to his perfon. And truly they that honour God, (hall be honour- edby him,hewill be a Sun and afhieldunto them; he w,li give themgrace here, and gloryhereafter; andno good thingwill he with-holdfrom themwhich walkup- rightly. Godlinefs is thehigh-way to happinefs,the (good old way that hath ever breve beatenby all thole saints that now finde reif unto theirfouls. (What 1Eneas Silvio Paid of learning , maymuch `more be laidofReligion and righteoufnei's: Vul- gar men thould efleeme it as filver, Noblemen as !gold,and Princes fhould prize it above their chief-eft pearls. Semen fanc`fumflatumenterree, the holy feed is the fubffance ofthe earth; the saintsare thepeopleof 'Gods purcbafe,that comprehend all his gettings,and aremuch more dear to him then Naboths Vine- yard was tohim. HePets them before hisface for e- !ver,Pfal.4.i.12. as loving to look upon them, yea, ;upon the verywalls ofthehoules where theydwell, Ifa.49.16. they are his portion , Deut.32.9. his inbe- 'ritance , Efay 49. 16. the dearly beloved of bis A 3 foul, Pjala4. I I . Ifa. 6.I 3.
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