A sermon, occasioned

To the Reader.

ALtho' my Consent to the Publication of the ensuing Sermon had no small Objections to Encounter with: for, First, The short time allow▪d me for Preparation after I was (by the little expected dying Desire of a poor man) diverted from my spending the whole of the Sabbath with a bereaved Congregation to which my help was promised; and Next, the Regard to be had unto the Administration of the Lords Supper, which now in the Absence of an Honoured Relation that kindly answered my Engagement elsewhere I was to keep some Eye unto; both necessitated me to want in this Discourse that Accuracy & that full pertinency which might recommend i• unto the Judicious; Nevertheless, so long as among all the Faults in it, I found not this, That it was not designed to do good, and so long as among all the Pleas (which in a curious & captious age my love to my own repose brought) against •he omitting of it, I never met with this, That It was impossible any good should be done by it, I have at the urgent Importunity of others ventured to deliver it into the Hands of as many as shall think▪ themselves concerned to peruse it: Praying that it may reach & touch the hearts of them, to whom a Christ should be a Pearl of great Price, till they LOOK unto HIM and be SAVED.

ALtho' my Consent to the Publication of the ensuing Sermon had no small Objections to Encounter with: for, First, The short time allow▪d me for Preparation after I was (by the littleexpected dying Desire of a poor man) diverted from my spending the whole of the Sabbath with a bereaved Congregation to which my help was promised; and Next, the Regard to be had unto the Administration of the Lords Supper, which now in the Absence of an Honoured Relation that kindly answered my Engagement elsewhere I was to keep some Eye unto; both necessitated me to want in this Discourse that Accuracy & that full pertinency which might recommend i unto the Iudicious; Nevertheless, so long as among all the Faults in it, I found not this, That it was not dsigned to do good, and so long as among all the Pleas (which in a curious & captious age my love to my own rpose brought) against he omitting of it, I never met with this, That It was impossible any good should be done by it, I have at the urgent Importunity of others ventur'd to deliver it into the Hands of as many as shall think themselves concerned to peruse it: Praying that it may reach & touch the hearts of them, to whom a Christ should be a Pearl of great Price, till they LOOK unto HIM and be SAVED.