Of thoughtfulness for the morrow with an appendix concerning the immoderate desire of fore-knowing…Of thoughtfulnes for the morrow with an appendix concerning the immoderate desire of fore-knowing…

Our great care should be to serve that Interest faithfully in our own stations, for our little time, that will soon be over. Your Ladyship hath been called to serve it in a Family wherein it hath long flourished. And which it hath dignified, beyond all the splendour that Antiquity and Secular greatness could confer upon it. The Lord grant it may long continue to flourish there, under the joint-influence of your noble Consort, and your own; And, afterwards, in a Posterity, that may imitate ⟨image 8⟩their Ancestors in substantial Piety, and solid goodness.

Our great care should be to serve that Interest faithfully in our own stations, for our little time, that will soon be over. Your Ladiship hath been called to serve it in a Family wherein it hath long flourished. And which it hath dignify'd, beyond all the splendour that Antiquity and Secular greatnes could confer upon it. The Lord grant it may long continue to flourish there, under the joint-influence of your noble Consort, and your own; And, afterwards, in a Posterity, that may imitate ⟨image 8⟩their Ancestors in substantial Piety, and solid goodness.

Which is a glory that will not fade, nor vary; not change with times, but equally recommend it self, to sober and good Men in all times. Whereas that which arises from the esteem of a Party can neither be diffusive, nor lasting.

'Tis true that I cannot but reckon it a part of any ones praise in a time wherein there are different Sentiments and ways, in circumstantial matters relating to Religion, to incline most to that which I take to come nearest the Truth and our common Rule. But, as was said by one that was a great and early light in the Christian