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Right Honourable,

What hath formerly been offered to your RELIGIOUS ear, is now further presented to your JUDICIOUS eye. Neither doubt I, but that, as it then found attentive audience with the one, so it will now find kind welcome and acceptance with the other: ⟨image 3⟩the rather it being, for the matter and substance of it▪ the message of Him in whose seat you sit, though brought by a weak and unworthy Messenger, and delivered in mean and unpolished manner. Messages are wont to be respected and received, and Presents esteemed and accepted more for the party from whom they come, then for the Person by whom they come, or for the manner of the delivery of them. The matter, I hope, will not be altogether unprofitable or unfruitful, though not handled so artificially or methodically as it might, or as were meet But neither mine incessant incumbrances, and perpetual distractions, […] of body, variety of business, and slender means of assistance, will afford leisure or liberty for any accurate and exact discourse: Nor is there much need of Art to persuade godly regard and holy obedience, where the power of piety hath already in some good measure possessed the heart. The Truth of God cannot but find good entertainment with all those that sincerely love and like it, although it ⟨image 3⟩come naked and bare, as ^abest beseemeth it, or but meanly attired, not bedecked and set out with such ornaments and dressings, as the natural eye and ear only affect and regard. If in ought it seem over-harsh unto any, ^bthe fault is in themselves, not in it. ^cThe word of God, saith the Prophet, is good, yea and pleasant too, as ^d