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TO THE Honourable, and his much Honoured Son-in-Law, Sr. ROBERT BOOTH, Knight, Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas in Ireland. Grace, Mercy, and Peace.

These Meditations presented to you, were first intended for a diversion to your and my sorrow, Conceived by the death of that Excellent Child your First-born, your Benjamin; but his ⟨image 3⟩Precious Mother's Ben-oni, for she brought him forth, not with the hazard only, but with the loss of her own Life; his Birth was her Death: from which very moment of time, You were pleased to concredit his Education to his tender Grand-Mother, your Pious Mother, and my Self; a Depositum, than which there could nothing have been more Sacred to us in the world: I am sure we were as tender of it, as of our own Lives; yea verily our Lives were bound up in the Child's Life. ¹He was indeed Natus deliciarum, a Delectable Child, in whom Nature and Grace seemed to be at a strife, which should excel in her workmanship: and as he grew in age, so he grew in sweetness of disposition, and in all Natural and Moral Endowments, of ⟨image 3⟩which his Age was capable: yea he out-grew his Age, and was always before-hand with his Education; Imbibing instruction faster then we durst (rationally) infuse it, for fear of hurting the tender Vessel: So that he seemed to be a Man before his Childhood was expired: As many Loved him as knew him; and were in dispute with themselves, whether such Maturity did Prophesy an Eximious Life, or an Immature Death: I must confess (whether my infirmity or no, I know not) I was often offended at the mention of the latter, as too boldly entrenching upon God's Prerogative: But such (it seems) was the Divine Decree, so it proved; His work was done betimes, and ours about him afore we thought of it; and while we said of him in our hearts, as