Certain select cases resolved specially tending to the right ordering of the heart, that…

This holy Letter of that ready Scribe of Christs Kingdom, is so full of Grace and Truth▪ ¹that it needs no other Epistle commendatory then it self.

THis holy Letter of that ready Scribe of Christs Kingdom, is so full of Grace and Truth▪ ¹that it needs no other Epistle commendatory then it self.

1. 1Mr. Shepherd of New-England.

Yet seeing the Lot is unexpectedly fallen upon my pen, to give it a Superscription that it may pass current from hand to hand; I do heartily in the first place, dedicate it to thee▪ thou bleeding, troubled-spirit. as a choice cordial friend, an Interpreter, one of a thousand, that doth not only speak thy heart, but by the Comforter (whom Christ hath promised to send) to thy heart.

Yet seeing the Lot is unexpectedly fallen upon my pen, to give it a Superscription that it may passe current from hand to hand; I do heartily in the first place, dedicate it to thee▪ thou bleeding, troubled-spirit. as a choice cordiall friend, an Interpreter, one of a thousand, that doth not onely speak thy heart, but by the Comforter (whom Christ hath promised to send) to thy heart.

It may be this paper present is sent on Embassy from Heaven, on purpose, to set thy house in order, to untie thy bosom knots, to bind the strong man, and cast him out of thy doors, that thy heart may be once again set at liberty, to serve the Lord thy God in thy general and particular