I have been induced to think of your Ladyship in this Dedication, partly in acknowledgement of the great respect due to the Family out of which you came, as it hath been a principal means of causing the light of the Gospel for many years to shine in those places where the people had sitten in darkness and in the shadow of death: And partly drawn by the many praises I have observed in your Ladyships, since the time of your noble sojourning in the noble Family you now live in. Your great respect of my Ministry, and your constant pains to employ your self about religious ⟨p. 192⟩duties, deserve from me more acknowledgement then so mean a gift as this can discharge. Madam, you are happy above many, that God hath inclined your heart to bear the yoke of Christ in your youth, and discern the glory of the spiritual kingdom of Jesus Christ. Your meekness assures me liberty to beseech you to go on in the good way of God, and to clean fast with all hearty affection unto the Truth, as you have learned Jesus Christ. It shall be a great increase of your glory, to increase in the knowledge and grace of Christ, and (in sound denial of your self, and contempt of the world) to fashion your self to all the courses, by ⟨p. 193⟩which you may be pleasing in the eyes of God, whiles multitudes in the Gentry of the land, of both sexes, by following foolish vanities, forsake their own mercy.
I haue beene induced to thinke of your Ladiship in this Dedication, partly in acknowledgement of the great respect due to the Family out of which you came, as it hath beene a principall meanes of causing the light of the Gospel for many yeeres to shine in those places where the people had sitten in darkenesse and in the shaddow of death: And partly drawne by the many praises I haue obserued in your Ladiships, since the time of your noble soiourning in the noble Familie you now liue in. Your great respect of my Ministery, and your constant paines to employ your selfe about religious ⟨p. 192⟩duties, deserue from mee more acknowledgment then so meane a gift as this can discharge. Madam, you are happy aboue many, that God hath inclined your heart to beare the yoke of Christ in your youth, and discerne the glory of the spirituall kingdome of Iesus Christ. Your meeknesse assures me libertie to beseech you to goe on in the good way of God, and to cleane fast with all heartie affection vnto the Truth, as you haue learned Iesus Christ. It shall bee a great increase of your glory, to increase in the knowledge and grace of Christ, and (in sound deniall of your selfe, and contempt of the world) to fashion your selfe to all the courses, by ⟨p. 193⟩which you may bee pleasing in the eyes of God, whiles multitudes in the Gentri• of the land, of both sexes, by following foolish vanities, forsake their owne mercie.
