A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word…

SIR, You are descended of a worthy, ancient, and religious Family: Your Grand-Father (as I have heard) was eminent for Holiness: Your Father is noted, and honoured, for one that feareth God above many; you have hereby the more encouragement, advantage and engagement to exercise your self to godliness. Tamerlane ⟨image 6⟩made it his practice to read often the Heroic Deeds of his Progenitors (not as proud of them, or boasting in them, but) as glorious Patterns, to inflame his Soul with a love of their Virtues. Man is a Creature that is led more by the Eye then the Ear, by Patterns then by Precepts; and no Patterns are more prevalent, then of those whom Nature and Grace oblige us to esteem and affect. These examples, above all others, as flaming Beacons on an Hill, call us to a stout defence of Virtue, when it's invaded by its Enemies. Alexander finding one of his ⟨image 7⟩Name cowardly, charged him to change his Name, or to become valiant. When one of the Scipio's (descended of Scipio African) became dissolute: The Roman Senate ordered him to put off that Ring, which he wore as the Badge of his Noble Family, because, by his vicious Life, he was a Reproach to it. The truth is, a wicked Son of a godly Father (as Uriah) carrieth Letters of his own condemnation about him, causing the Patterns and Precepts of his Family to be Auxiliaries to his own reproach and infamy; whilst the light and lustre of his Ancestors ⟨image 7⟩renders his works of darkness the more gross and palpable. I mention not these things, as suspecting your integrity; but to provoke and quicken you to the greater care and circumspection in your carriage and conversation.

SIR, YOu are descended of a worthy, ancient, and religious Family: Your Grand-Father (as I have heard) was eminent for Holiness: Your Father is noted, and honoured, for one that feareth God above many; you have hereby the more encouragement, advantage and engagement to exercise your self to godliness. Tamerlane ⟨image 6⟩made it his practice to read often the Heroick Deeds of his Progenitors (not as proud of them, or boasting in them, but) as glorious Patterns, to inflame his Soul with a love of their Vertues. Man is a Creature that is led more by the Eye then the Ear, by Patterns then by Precepts; and no Patterns are more prevalent, then of those whom Nature and Grace oblige us to esteem and affect. These examples, above all others, as flaming Beacons on an Hill, call us to a stout defence of Vertue, when it's invaded by its Enemies. Alexander finding one of his