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

An Epistle to the Reader.

THE Books of learned and godly Ministers, published by others after their death's, do for the most part come far short of those Books, which they themselves publish in their lives time. The children of their brains being herein, like unto the children of their bodies, who many times live plentifully while their Fathers live, but meet with much hardship after their death's. It may be said of the posthumous works of most men in comparison of their first works Printed by themselves, as it is of Abishai and Benaiah, 2 Sam. 23.19.23. They were very valiant and honourable men, but they attained not unto the three first Worthies of David.

THE Books of learned and godly Ministers, published by others after their death's, do for the most part come far short of those Books, which they themselves publish in their lives time. The children of their brains being herein, like unto the children of their bodies, who many times live plentifully while their Fathers live, but meet with much hardship after their death's. It may bee said of the posthumous works of most men in comparison of their first works Printed by themselves, as it is of Abishai and Benaiah, 2 Sam. 23.19.23. They were very valiant and honourable men, but they attained not unto the three first Worthies of David.

But it fairs far otherwise with this our Reverend Brother, he hath attained a double happiness which few arrive unto. These ensuing Sermons were written out in a fair and legible Character, and prepared for the Press in his life time, and wherein they were defective, they have been supplied and made up, by an able, learned, and judicious Friend; so that the Reader may assure himself that they are no whit inferior to those other Books, which he himself set forth, and that these Fatherless children, suffer no considerable prejudice by their Authors death.