A25469:4
The life and funeral sermon of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Brand Dr. Samuel Annesley
The life and funeral sermon of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Brand Dr. Samuel Annesley.
London: printed for John Dunton, 1692
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 Honourable the Lady Bridget Roberts, Grace be with you, Mercy and Peace from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father in Truth and Love.1
To the Honourable the Lady Bridget Roberts, Grace be with you, Mercy and Peace srom God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father in Truth and Love.1
- 12 John 3.
MADAM,
THIS Eminent Saint, now in Glory, having been sixteen Years your Soul guide, to the eternal Advantage of your self, and dearest Relations, and your House being (as it were) the Sanctuary for Divine Worship, for the spreading of Religion through the Country. This cannot but render his Memory to you precious; and you may expect, that as they had the Benefit of his Ministry from your House, they should receive the Memoirs of it from your Hands. I make no Apology at all for what's In the Narrative, but only for what's left out. I am (perhaps) so needlessly scrupulous of offending any, that (perhaps) I may eventually please none. Be it so. 'Tis Spiritual Profit I aim at, if I can but hereby provoke ⟨image 3⟩