Asarkokaukemma, or The vanity of glorying in the flesh, opened in a sermon preached…Asarkokaukēma, or The vanity of glorying in the flesh, open'd in a sermon preached…

To the Choice and every way Hopeful Young Gentleman, Mr. RICHARD LUCY, the Now, only Son and Heir to FRANCIS LUCY, Esq Student of Ch. Ch. Oxon.

To the Choise and every way Hopeful Young Gentleman, Mr. RICHARD LUCY, the Now, only Son and Heire to FRANCIS LƲCY, Esq Student of Ch. Ch. Oxon.

Learned Friend,

You have not the least interest in these papers, whom your desired Brother hath left Inheritor not to his Expectations only, but his Virtues; which here are presented to you. Not as you have seen ⟨image 12⟩them in their own native beauty and splendour, as they beamed out themselves to the eye of those that did converse with him, while alive, but as you have seen the picture of a man taken in his winding sheet, in more dark and lifeless colours: and yet as to the visage and air, such as, that, without an Inscription, you might at first sight be able to tell whose picture and image it is. The view whereof, I know not whether it may affect you more with grief or joy; grief, because it ls not himself; joy, because you have so much of his shadow to converse with, as long as you shall survive. I send it to you, Sir, to perfect the Copy, for the truth is, there is none that can draw ⟨image 12⟩it to life, but your self; it being not only imago tua, but imago tui; that therefore you would every day add one line to the finishing of this excellent piece,