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Sir
The,,,aschamberlaine,
Chiefe
Iufice
of
his
Maietties
Councell
in
the
Marches
of
WALE
S.
.
Right Worfhipfull,
Haue
prefumed
under your
worthy
Names,
tefend
forth a
few
Ohferssations (fetch
as
they
are)
on
the Parable
of
the
Rich
man
and
Lazarus
:
A
Scripture
that
may
well
be
let
by
the
Preacher
to
an
age effuch
ful-
me
ffe
of
finne
as ours is
:
An
age
and time,
wheresi
vngodlineffe,
which
(as
the(a)L.
Prefiee to
of
Pletlis
ence
fayde)
was
wont
but
to
wh
/per
the truncr'c
men
in
the
Bare,
and
lsspingly
to
fpeake
between the teeth,deth
ofRel:Von.
now
wog
boldly,
and
without
all
blufb
of
fhame,
w
ith
open
mouth,
call
vpon
both
Bench
anti
Pulpit
forproteEion.
Dines
bath
many
Tonnes
at
this day,
fprung
from
his
laines
of
cruelty,
and the
contempt
of
the
poore
:
and
for
his
brethren among
vs,
they be
not
(b)
fine
enely,but
mere then flue
hundred;
hll
which,
liming
in
no
feare
of
od
or
death,
and
impudently
in
all
b
L.
t 6
the
deedes
offnne, require
the
f
arpefl
edge
of Difcipline,
Gods
2L
and
mans.
Therefore
and towardthe
reformation
of
fo
many as
God
fkgll
incline
to
reade with
[erne
cenfcience
the
enfuing
D
f
ceurje,
1
haue (to
my Poore
skill)
done
femewhat
in this
fearefull
Parable
of
Dines. That
little
which
is
done,isacccrding to the
Scriptures,
and
humbly commended
toyour
Worfhip
by
One
that
cloth
loueandreuerence
You
for the
good
parts
of Iudiice
and
Piety,whicbare
noted to be in
you
by
thofe
that
know
you
;
and
appeareth
by
this,
that
yon
(pare
no
framed,
ands
accept
no
faces
of
men,
or
kite
rs
i
matter; of
publake
bearings
whether
in
Terme or
out.
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