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To the Worshipful, Maurice Thompson, Esquire; George Thompson, Esquire; William Thompson, Esquire, Sheriff of London; Robert Thompson, Esq; SIR John Wittewrong, Knight; William Ofield Esquire; Samuel Champnes, Elias Roberts, and William Hawkins, Esquires: With their Wives and Children, Grace and Peace.

To the Worshipful, Maurice Thompson, Esquire; George Thompson, Esquire; William Thompson, Esquire, Sheriff of London; Robert Thompson, Esq; SR John Wittewrong, Knight; William Ofield Esquire; Samuel Champnes, Elias Roberts, and William Hawkins, Esquires: With their Wives and Children, Grace and Peace.

Honoured, and Beloved in our Lord Jesus.

Honored, and Beloved in our Lord Jesus.

IT is not want of respect that I seem thus to crowd your Names together, I owe more than an Epistle to each of your Names, but because God hath made you one, though branched into several Habitations, I take the boldness to present this work to you, as unto one Family: It ⟨image 3⟩is written of the Stork,¹ that she useth to leave one of her Young ones to the House where she made her nest, and upon that account some of my labours do belong to your Family, where I studied, and from whence I Preached them: some of you and yours have often desired the Publishing of these Notes, and being Printed, whither should the Press send them but to your Door? you are the Family with whom I have had the honour to converse much whilst living; and now the Blossoms of the Grave are upon me, I dedicate these Notes unto you, that by them I may live and speak with you when my Head shall lie under the Clods: you are a Family whom the Lord hath blessed and raised not only to a great estate in the world, but to the saving knowledge of his Son, our dear Saviour, and whom should I serve and honour but those whom God honours and blesseth?