Downame - BV209_D69_G6_1640_v1

not done according to his better abilities, I thought it a dammage to Gods people , that they thould lofe the fubfance for the want of force circumílance and have no ufe of a well- compated bodie, fit to do God and his Church good fervice, be- caufe it was not decked with gay or- naments. And therefore I have pre - fented it to the view of the world, and indeavoured to perform the dú- tie of a brother to him that is decea_ fed, though not to raife this fpiritu- all feed to him ( for it was of his own begetting and compofing yet to give unto it birth and being in the world, without which it would have proved abortive, and fo have been buried in perpetuall oblivi- on. The which fervice I have the more