Your own Worth, The public good Service which you have done to this State, The true Zeal which to the Honour of God, and Good of his Church you have on all occasions manifested, do all challenge all the honour that can be done to a man of such desert. The ancient acquaintance which hath been even from your childhood betwixt you and me, The entire familiarity that was betwixt us while we were Students in Cambridge, The Continuance thereof by mutual ⟨image 105⟩Latin Letters about Scholastical disputes, (Bono enim literarum eadem ferè absentes, quae si coram essemus consequimur) when we 1were parted, And finally, the many favours which in this time of acquaintance you have showed me, do, in special require of me all grateful remembrance. For, [Greek or Hebrew]. Wherefore having here an opportunity of giving public testimony of the high esteem I have of you, and of the reverend respect I bear to you, I do most willingly take it. cIt was the commendation of the golden age, that a friend would testify all the respect he could to his friend. True it is, that in regard of your noble birth, your eminent dignity, your excellent endowments, there is betwixt us (to use the dPhilosophers phrase) [Greek or Hebrew]. But yet (as another ePhilosopher saith, [Greek or Hebrew]. His Aphorism may fitly be applied to friends, who though in sundry respects they be unequal, yet unequal things to them become equal. To this tends that which Saint 5Hierom hath taken from the Orator, Amicitia pares aut accipit, aut facit. In confidence of your true friendly mind to me, I have made bold to testify mine to you, and that by prefixing your ⟨image 105⟩noble name before this Sermon of The Extent of Gods Providence. In regard of the smallness of it, it is indeed but as a little Pamphlet, and (as here published) but an Appendix to a larger Treatise; Yet a Treatise dedicated to your right honourable Kinsman, the Earle of Warwick: and in that respect I suppose it may be the better taken. The manner of setting out that divine matter of Gods Providence, is according to my accustomed manner, very plain. But I remember a Proverbial speech in use among the Jews, noted by Drusius that great Hebrician, to be 6among the Aphorisms of loses the son of Judas (which, I am persuaded, you also have read) [Greek or Hebrew] Ne respice cantha rum, sed id quod in co est.
YOur owne Worth, The publike good Service which you have done to this State, The true Zeale which to the Honour of God, and Good of his Church you have on all occasions manifested, do all challenge all the honour that can be done to a man of such desert. The ancient acquaintance which hath beene even from your childhood betwixt you and me, The entire familiarity that was betwixt us while we were Students in Cambridge, The Continuance thereof by mutuall ⟨image 105⟩Latine Letters about Scholasticall disputes, (Bono enim literarum eadem ferè absentes, quae si coram essemus consequimur) when we 1were parted, And finally, the many favours which in this time of acquaintance you have shewed me, doe, in speciall require of mee all gratefull remembrance. For, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Wherefore having here an opportunity of giving publique testimony of the high esteeme I have of you, and of the reverend respect I beare to you, I doe most willingly take it. cIt was the commendation of the golden age, that a friend would testifie all the respect he could to his friend. True it is, that in regard of your noble birth, your eminent dignity, your excellent endowments, there is betwixt us (to use the dPhilosophers phrase) 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. But yet (as another ePhilosopher saith, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. His Aphorisme may fitly be applyed to friends, who though in sundry respects they be unequall, yet unequall things to them become equall. To this tends that which Saint 5Hierom hath taken from the Oratour, Amicitia pares aut accipit, aut facit. In confidence of your true friendly minde to mee, I have made bold to testifie mine to you, and that by prefixing your ⟨image 105⟩noble name before this Sermon of The Extent of Gods Providence. In regard of the smalnesse of it, it is indeed but as a little Pamphlet, and (as here published) but an Appendix to a larger Treatise; Yet a Treatise dedicated to your right honourable Kinseman, the Earle of Warwick: and in that respect I suppose it may be the better taken. The manner of setting out that divine matter of Gods Providence, is according to my accustomed manner, very plaine. But I remember a Proverbiall speech in use among the Iewes, noted by Drusius that great Hebrician, to bee
- 1Cic Epist. Famil.
- c[Greek or Hebrew]. Theoc. in Ait.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Theoc. in Ait.
- dArist. Ethic. Lib. 5.
- ePlot lib. de Leg 6.Plat lib. de Leg 6.
- 5Hier. Comment. in Mic 7
- 6Joh Drus Sent, vet. Sapient.Ioh Drus Sent, vet. Sapient.
