The Epiftle Dedicatory. well fpare from that penfum diurnum, of praying and preaching, I gladlyfpent in thefe Notes upon the New rbtrcid Teftament : as hatingwith the Athenians e y Nor, ¡Wei ne- ,iw ana c uova gorÿ, /èd t . o- arruitleJe feriation ; and holding with Cato, that account ty reddenda eft muff begiven, notofour labour only, but of our leifure ratto.Cic.do alto. For that two-years-fpace ( well-nigh) that! lived Sen. inYour Garifon, I think I may truly fay with Seneca, Scnec. epift. Nullrw mihiper otium exiit dies, partem etiam noiliumflays vendicavi, that I laboured night and day (amidft many fears d ding Cicero. State) Vt and tears for the labouring Church, advitam communem aliquem,faltem franuc`fum blee ferre poffém ; that I might be tome way ferviceable to the Pub- Amos 6.6. like, and to You. And albeit I was even fickat heart fome- ?fly times of the affliclian of7ofeph ; and even ready thorow Cora in Ezech. faintneífe to letfall mypen, as it befell Hierom, when wri- proem. ting upon Ezekiel, he heardofthe Packing of the City of RomebytheGoths : yet as God ( who comforteth thofe zCor., 6. that are cart down) gave us any lucida intervalla ( this laft triumphant yearefpecially) I took heart afrefh to Pet clofer to the work, which now by Godsgrace is brought to forne period : And becaufe I have ever held ingrati- tudea monfter in nature, a folecifme in manners, a para- Camd. Etitab. dox inDivinity, anugly finne (yea, if there be anypone against theholy Ghoft , it is this, laid Queen Elizabeth in a Letterofhersto the King of France) therefore I could doe noleffe thendedicate thispiece ofmypains unto You, towhom I owe fo very much; it being penned (molt ofit) within Yourwalls, andunder Your wing, where I fo long fatand fang, Virg. Ectog. O Melibae, beats nobishac otiafecit. The Stork is faid to leave one ofher young ones, where the hatcheth them : TheElephant to turn up the firft (prig toward heaven, whenhe comes to feed; both out offome atoll, sic 14 z. inflin I ofgratitude. The 'Egyptians are renowned inHi- ílories for a thankful' .people : And the Ifraelites were charged A
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