The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…

I May seem to pass the bounds of Christian modesty, so to press into your presence (Right Honourable and virtuous Ladies) without due regard of your persons and places. But such is your wisdom, that you can, and your honourable affection, that you will hear with patience the meanest servant of Jesus Christ. I come (Right Honourable) as in the name of the faithful servant of Christ, M. R. Greenham, a man well known unto your honours, and to those most religious patrons of all piety and good learning, the right Honourable Earls (of blessed memory) of Huntington, Warwick, and of Bedford, which now sleep in the Lord. Of them much was he reverenced in his life time; of your Honours much lamented after death, for that you know the loss of such, to be no small wrack unto the Church and people of God. Now so it is (right Honourable and virtuous Ladies) that piety in this declining age waxeth daily very faint, & impiety doth much abound: and God hath not only set before you those noble examples for imitation, but also hath enriched your harts with his faith, fear and love, (as it well appears (to embrace his blessed truth, and to be as nursing mothers to the holy religion of Christ. Now then this good servant of the Lord, God gave him (to recompense his want of natural children) many sons and daughters begotten by the Gospel to the faith of Christ, and some ^*orphans he left after him, which being cherished and accepted with ⟨image 4⟩grace among men, shall truly resemble the Fathers heart which begat them, and stand up for him to speak and preach piety, and the true faith of Christ to posterity. One of which after a years travel in the nursing and education, coated and attired (in the best manner that I can) and now able to speak distinctly and comfortably the fathers mind and meaning to all the spiritual Sons and Daughters of God in our Church; here I do in love unfeigned unto him, and in duty to your Honours, humbly present unto your Honourable protection.

I May seeme to passe the boundes of Christian modeslie, so to presse into your presence (Right Honorable and vertuous Ladies) without due regard of your persons and places. But such is your wisedome, that you can, and your honorable affection, that you will heare with patience the meanest seruant of Iesus Christ. I come (Right Honorable) as in the name of the faithfull seruant of Christ, M. R. Greenham, a man well knowne vnto your honours, and to those most religious patrons of all pietie and good learning, the right Honourable Earles (of blessed memorie) of Huntington, VVarwicke, and of Bedford, which now sleepe in the Lord. Of them much was hee reuerenced in his life time; of your Honours much lamented after death, for that you know the losse of such, to be no small wracke vnto the Church and people of God. Now so it is (right Honorable and vertuous Ladies) that pietie in this declining age waxeth daily very faint, & impiety doth much abound: and God hath not only set before you those noble examples for imitation, but also hath enriched your harts with his faith, feare and loue, (as it well appeares (to embrace his blessed truth, and to be as nursing mothers to the holy religion of Christ. Now then this good seruant of the Lord, God gaue him (to recompence his want of naturall children) many sonnes and daughters begotten by the Gospell to the faith of Christ, and some