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Jacobs thankfulness to God, for Gods goodness to Jacob A meditation on Genesis 32.…Iacobs thankfulnesse to God, for Gods goodnesse to Iacob A meditation on Genesis 32.…
Jacobs thankfulness to God, for Gods goodness to Jacob A meditation on Genesis 32. 10. Wherein by the way also the popish doctrine of mans merit is discussed. By Thomas Gataker, B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.Iacobs thankfulnesse to God, for Gods goodnesse to Iacob A meditation on Genesis 32. 10. VVherein by the way also the popish doctrine of mans merite is discussed. By Thomas Gataker, B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.
London: printed by John Haviland for Fulke Clifton, 1624London: printed by Iohn Haviland for Fulke Clifton, 1624
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL Sir WILLIAM WHITMORE, of Apley in Salop, Knight; And Mr. GEORGE WHITMORE of London, Alderman; Saving Health, true Honour, and eternal Happiness.
TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL Sir WILLIAM WHITMORE, of Apley in Salope, Knight; And Mr. GEORGE WHITMORE of London, Alderman; Saving Health, true Honour, and eternall Happinesse.
Right Worshipful, I stood obliged to the Stock you both sprang from, before I was able to apprehend what such obligation meant. Your worthy Mother was one of those that presented me to the sacred Laver, ⟨image 3⟩and that undertook there in my behalf. She answered there for me, *when I could not answer for my self; and did further also then seal up her free affection to me with a real testimony of her Love. Neither did her kindness towards me then and there expire; but as it was oft renewed in her life time, when occasion thereof was offered, so it ceased not until her self deceased. She performed one of the first religious offices for me soon after my birth: and it was one of her last pious works to remember me, among others whom she had performed the like office for, at the time of her decease. Some monument of my thankful acknowledgement hereof being desirous to have extant, whom should I address it unto rather than yourselves; the only two Principals now left of that Family? Being therefore moved to make public two of my weak Discourses, containing the explication of two portions of Scripture, of some near relation the one to the other; the one of them relating a ⟨image 3⟩memorable example of the performance of that that is promised in the other, to wit, of Gods blessing o those with temporal things, that are careful to look after the spiritual: This of the twain I chose the rather to present your Worships withal; partly, because at the motion of the one of you,