Meditations on the fall and rising of St. Peter

This Reverend Author, of great renown for Piety and Learning, needs no Letters of Commendation: For as it was said of righteous Abel, That he being dead, yet speaketh, Heb. 11. 5. so this profound and pious Divine yet lives, and speaks in his excellent Works; wherein he hath studied (as the Apostle ⟨image 7⟩gave in charge to Timothy) to approve himself a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth, 2 Tim. 2. 15. Yet because many eminent Writers not only after they were dead, but even whilst they were alive, have been much abused and injured by surreptitious, or supposititious, at least by imperfect Copies of their Works; therefore I thought my self obliged (as being an ancient and intimate acquaintance of the worthy Author) to give this Testimony to the ⟨image 7⟩Truth, viz. That these ensuing Meditations concerning Saint Peters Fall and Rising, are the genuine issue of the Head-labours, and Heart-labours of the Author, whose name they bear, and whose stile they resemble as face in water answers face, —Sic oculos, sic ille manus, sic ora ferebat. Neither do they only resemble his stile (which is much of an evidence to be his) but they are printed according to his own Original Manuscript. These Meditations were penned and sent (as ⟨image 8⟩a New-years Gift) to one of his ancient Friends in Oxford, much about that time, when he wrote those two Learned Treatises, One of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul of Man. The other, of Meditations of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper.

THis Reverend Author, of great renown for Piety and Learning, needs no Letters of Commendation: For as it was said of righteous Abel, That he being dead, yet speaketh, Heb. 11. 5. so this profound and pious Divine yet lives, and speaks in his excellent Works; wherein he hath studied (as the Apostle ⟨image 7⟩