Heaven taken

IT is the happiness of this City, to have a Magistrate that bears not the Sword in vain. Your place ⟨image 3⟩is high; God hath lent you his own Title: ^*your work is great, it lies in the distribution of Justice, which (according to Aristotle) comprehends all virtues in it. And in this your high orb you have acted vigorously. Your good Government hath helped to raise, if not London's structures, yet its fame. My Lord, to be a [Greek or Hebrew], a public Good, will both render your life honourable, and your death comfortable^*. God did reserve you for such a juncture of time as ⟨image 3⟩this. When is there more need of zeal in superiors, than when vice grows heady in inferiors. The subject I here humbly dedicate to your Lordship, is, Violence for Heaven. A Divine [Greek or Hebrew], or temperature of soul to be much aspired after; for by this you may help to save not only your self, but others. Put on Integrity as a Robe; and let zealous violence more adorn you than the richest Chain of Gold. But I have cause to break forth into Panegyrics. Indeed your own ⟨image 4⟩works praise you in the gates. Your prudence and courage; your impartiality in deciding Causes; your punishing of Oaths, and correcting the false balance; your compliance with his Majesties Royal Proclamation against Health-drinking, have erected for you a living monument in the breasts of all sober and pious men. Among other things, your Self-denial hath been eminent in letting go some of your Perquisites for the good of others.

IT is the happiness of this City, to have a Magistrate that bears not the Sword in vain. Your place ⟨image 3⟩is high; God hath lent you his own Title: ^*your work is great, it lies in the distribution of Justice, which (according to Aristotle) comprehends all virtues in it. And in this your high orb you have acted vigorously. Your good Government hath helped to raise, if not London's structures, yet its fame. My Lord, to be a , a publick Good, will both render your life honourable, and your death comfortable