The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises

Right Honourable,

IT was the purpose of my dear Husband deceased, to have presented these his Works unto you Both, by an Epistle Dedicatory, wherein he would have spoken his gratitude for your manifold favours. And when his wasting weaknesses had rendered him unfit for that intended service, he desired, if these manuscripts should be esteemed worthy of public view, they might come abroad under your Honours Patronage, to be living evidences of his high respect and unfeigned thankfulness. This Narrative will, I humbly hope, make a satisfying Apology for my presumption, in prefixing your noble Names before these his Sermons, which ⟨image 3⟩are likely to find the same good acceptance from the Press (as some eminently pious and learned, upon the perusal of them judge) which they received from the Pulpit.

IT was the purpose of my dear Husband deceased, to have presented these his Works unto you Both, by an Epistle Dedicatory, wherein hee would have spoken his gratitude for your manifold favours. And when his wasting weaknesses had rendred him unfit for that intended service, hee desired, if these manuscripts should bee esteemed worthy of publick view, they might come abroad under your Honours Patronage, to bee living evidences of his high respect and unfeigned thankfulness. This Narrative will, I humbly hope, make a satisfying Apologie for my presumption, in prefixing your noble Names before these his Sermons, which ⟨image 3⟩are likely to find the same good acceptance from the Presse (as some eminently pious and learned, upon the perusall of them judge) which they received from the Pulpit.

My prayers are, that Your Selves and Your Family, may both here and hereafter reap the fruit of all those encouragements, which many famous Ministers (some dead, and others surviving to do service) have received from Your Honours favour.