The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…

In my desire therefore of the common salvation; ¹but especially of your Highness's everlasting welfare, I have endeavoured to extract (out of ⟨image 7⟩the chaos of endless controversies) the old Practice of true Piety, which flourished before these Controversies were hatched: which my poor labours (in a short while) come now forth again, the 42. time, under the gracious protection of your Highness's favour; and by their entertainment seem not to be altogether unwelcome to the Church of Christ. If to be pious, hath in all ages been held the truest honour: how much more honourable is it, in so impious an age, to be the true Patron and Pattern of Piety? Piety made David, Solomon, Jehoshaphat, Hezekiah, Josiah, Zerubbabel, Constantine, Theodosius, Edward the VI. Queen Elizabeth, Prince Henry, and other religious Princes to be so honoured, ²that their Names (since their deaths) smell in the Church of God like a precious ointment, ³and their remembrances sweet as honey in all mouths, and as Music at a Banquet of Wine: when as the lips of others who have been godless and ⟨image 7⟩irreligious Princes, do •ot and stink in the memory of God's People. And what honour is it for great Men to have great Titles on Earth, when God counts their names unworthy to be^* written in his Book of life in Heaven?⁵

In my desire therefore of the common salvation; ¹but especially of your Highness's everlasting welfare, I have endeavoured to extract (out of ⟨image 7⟩the chaos of endless controversies) the old Practice of true Piety, which flourished before these Controversies were hatched: which my poor labours (in a short while) come now forth again, the 42. time, under the gracious protection of your Highness's favour; and by their entertainment seem not to be altogether unwelcome to the Church of Christ. If to be pious, hath in all ages been held the truest honour: how much more honourable is it, in so impious an age, to be the true Patron and Pattern of Piety? Piety made David, Solomon, Jehoshaphat, Ezechias, Josias, Zerubbabel, Constantine, Theodosius, Edward the VI. Queen Elizabeth, Prince Henry, and other religious Princes to be so honoured,