Meditations on the fall and rising of St. Peter

AN ADVERTISEMENT TO THE Reader.

Courteous Reader,

AS I cannot expect thy Thanks, so I need not fear thy Censure for the Publication of these Meditations. For by ⟨image 3⟩the forwardness of the Book-seller to promote thine (I hope) as well as his own profit, they passed the Press altogether without my knowledge; and before I received the least Intimation of any such Design, they were by him presented to me entirely Printed, desiring my attestation of their Legitimacy. To prevent therefore thy doubt and suspicion ⟨image 3⟩touching their true Author, I do from good and manifold Evidence assure thee, they are the genuine, though early off-spring of that Reverend Person whose name is prefixed to them. In his Lordships life-time I have often heard him mention, not only in general this Tractate, as one of his First Theological Essays; But likewise in particular, his ⟨image 4⟩Presenting thereof to a Pious and Charitable^* Gentlewoman, who by an holy emulation of her namesake Joanna in the Evangelist, did minister unto Christ of her Substance, by liberal Gifts to his Preachers and Poor. From this Copy fairly written with the Authors own hand, and prefaced ⟨image 4⟩with a short paper of Verses to that his Friend, were they Printed by the Stationer. And since the Decease of my Father, and his only Brother