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Mercies memorial
Mercies memorial: or, Israel's thankful remembrance of God in their high estate, for his merciful remembering of them in their low estate. In a sermon before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, the Right Worshipful the Aldermen, and the Companies of the city London, on the 5th. of November, 1656. / By Ralph Venning.Mercies memorial: or, Israel's thankful remembrance of God in their high estate, for his mercifull remembring of them in their low estate. In a sermon before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, the Right Worshipful the Aldermen, and the Companies of the city London, on the 5th. of November, 1656. / By Ralph Venning.
London: printed for John Rothwell, 1656
Dedication: To the Right Honourable Sir ROBERT TICHBORN LORD MAYOR, And the Right Worshipful The AL…
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When I had received your Order for the Printing of this Sermon, I procured the best Copy I could, by which and the best memory I had of what I delivered, I have endeavoured to present it to your view; not without a little addition to some heads, which then I could not enlarge.
WHen I had received your Order for the Printing of this Sermon, I procured the best Copy I could, by which and the best memory I had of what I delivered, I have endeavoured to present it to your view; not without a little addition to some heads, which then I could not enlarge.
The rest of this address My Lord and Gentlemen, is not to complement and flatter you, but earnestly yet humbly to beseech you that you would (as Mordecai said to Esther) seriously and studiously consider, wherefore God hath brought you to this high estate, hear the place and (as the Prophet said of the rod) him that hath ⟨image 4⟩appointed it; Be pleased to Know and account that the doing your duty in your Place is the greatest honour of your place; whereas else it will be said that your Places honoured you, but you honoured not your Places.
The rest of this addresse My Lord and Gentlemen, is not to complement and flatter you, but earnestly yet humbly to beseech you that you would (as Mordecai said to Hester) seriously and studiously consider, wherefore God hath brought you to this high estate, hear the place and (as the Prophet said of the rod) him that hath ⟨image 4⟩appointed it; Be pleased to Know and account that the doing your duty in your Place is the greatest honour of your place; whereas else it will be said that your Places honoured you, but you honoured not your Places.