A12367:5
A preparative to marriage The sum whereof was spoken at a contract, and enlarged…A preparatiue to mariage The summe whereof was spoken at a contract, and inlarged…
A preparative to marriage The sum whereof was spoken at a contract, and enlarged after. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of the Lords Supper, and another of usury. By Henry Smith.A preparatiue to mariage The summe whereof was spoken at a contract, and inlarged after. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of the Lords Supper, and another of vsurie. By Henrie Smith.
London: printed by Thomas Orwin for Thomas Man, 1591
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.
NOBILISSIMO VIRO GVILIELMO Cecilio, Equiti aurato, Baroni Burghleiensi, summo Angliae Thesaurario, & Cantabrigiensis Academiae Cancellario, Henricus Smithus haec tria pignota in grati animi testimonium consecravit.
NOBILISSIMO VIRO GVILIELMO CEcilio, Equiti aurato, Baroni Burghleiensi, summo Angliae Thesaurario, & Cantabrigiensis Academiae Cancellario, Henricus Smithus haec tria pignota in grati animi testimonium consecrauit.
To the Reader.
Because sickness hath restrained me from preaching, I am content to do any good by writing. Happy is that Author which is in stead of other, that after his Book is read, men need read no moe of that matter. I go on a Theme which many have traversed before me prolixly, or cursorily, or barrenly: If I 1have performed by study any more than the rest, let my reader judge, and give glory to him which teacheth by whom he will. What I have endeavoured, my self do feel, and others know. We are ignorant of many things for a few that we understand: but I have bin alway ashamed, that my writings should weigh lighter for want of pains, which ⟨image 4⟩is the bane of Printing, and surfeiteth the Reader. Now I send thee like a Bee to gather Honey out of flowers, and weeds. Every Garden is furnished with others, and so is ours. Read, pray, and med[…]; thy profit shall be little in any book, unless thou read alone, and unless thou read all. It is one of the births of my fainting, therefore take it with a right hand, and if thou find any thing that doth make thee better, I repent not that others importunity hath obtained it for thee. Farewell. As Jacob blessed his sons when he left them, so now I