Shepard - Houston-Packer Collection BV4500 .S43 1657

TO THE Chrillian READERS He precious memoryof the Author of thcfe cnfuing SE B. MONS, needs no reviving to any gracious heart, that had any knowledge of him. Yea the world knows in pare (thoughbut in a little part) by fome pieces ofhis formerly Printed (while he was yet with us)who this Author was, what it owes toGod for him, and how juf}ly it might figh over his grave, with that of the Apofile, Of whom the World was not worthy! His praifcthroughout all the Churches, is farm above any addition by fo mean a pen as writes thefc lines. But it is not fit that the fieft page of any thing publifhed after his death (for I doubt not but his death is long ago publickly took notice of) fhould go without fome wit- flare ofa mournful' remembrance thereof, which indeed no tears can fufficiently lament. We who fometimesfate under his fhadow, and were fed fromGod by him, (the poor flock of this Shep- herd) amongwhom he lived,tejli f ving Repentance towards God, and faith towards our Lord Jefus Chrif; and whom he fomctimcs exhorted, comfor- ted andcharged every one ofus as a Father doth his Children ...r......... .. ..< .^`-..

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