The real Christian, or, A treatise of effectual calling wherein the work of God…

God so blessing the endeavour of your godly Mother, a Gentlewoman so wise in her government, so gracious in her conversation, so fervent in prayer, that before she died, she lived to see eight of her Children (if not all, the rest dying little ones) new born, and having a title to a more ancient and better inheritance than Barrington-Hall, which ⟨image 4⟩(as I am informed by one who should know best) hath now above twelve hundred years payed rent to that Family, which suffers no spot of dishonour by your being a Member of it.

Be your thoughts of your self now what they will; while I trace you in your Conversation, I must judge of you as before: when after our unhappy Wars, you were called, being young, to such a place, as made your favour worth the courting by all sorts of men, who can say you did not then show yourself, both a Gentleman and a Christian? As by your conversation in general, so in particular, by your courteous and civil deportment towards all, doing as much as might be offices of kindnesses to those who were then esteemed Adversaries: (from ⟨image 5⟩whom at this time you receive the return of as civil respects.) Also by avoiding those evils which commonly attend such places-

Be your thoughts of your self now what they will; while I trace you in your Conversation, I must judge of you as before: when after our unhappy Wars, you were called, being young, to such a place, as made your favour worth the courting by all sorts of men, who can say you did not then shew yourself, both a Gentleman and a Christian? As by your conversation in general, so in particular, by your courteous and civil deportment towards all, doing as much as might be offices of kindnesses to those who were then esteemed Adversaries: (from ⟨image 5⟩whom at this time you receive the return of as civil respects.) Also by avoiding those evils which commonly attend such places-