No man ever complained of it that in the works of Chrysostom, we find seven Orations not ⟨image ?⟩far asunder, in Commendation of Paul; nor is it any fault that I have now wri••en Out, in Commendation of a man whom a Pauline Spirit, had made Illustrious. In describing him, I have made but little Touches upon his Parentage, and Family, because as the truly Great Basil excuses his Omission of those things, in his Oration upon Gordius the Martyr, Ecclesia hac tanquam supervacua dimi•• it. But I have related those things of him, which cannot but create a good Esteem for him, in the Breast of your Lordship, who are a Faithful and Ancient Witness against those Distempers of the world, whereby (as the blessed S alvian Lamented it) Cogimur esse Viles, ut Nobises habeamur; and Raise the sweetness of your Thoughts upon Your Approaches, which may our God make both slow and sure, unto that State, wherein, The Least is Greater than this JOHN. But if I may more ingenuously, Confess the whole Ground and Cause of this Dedication, I must own, 'Tis to pay a part of a Debt; a Debt under which You have laid my Country, when You did with Your Own Honourable Hand, Present unto His Majesty the same Account, which I have here again Published Concerning the Success of the Gospel among the Indians in New-England.
No man ever complained of it that in the works of Chrysostom, we find seven Orations not ⟨image ?⟩far as••nder, in Commendation of Paul; nor is it any fault that I have now wri••en Out, in Commendation of a man whom a Pauline Spirit, had made Illustrious. In describing him, I have made but little Touches upon his Parentage, and Family, because as the truly Great Basil excuses his Omission of those things, in his Oration upon Gordius the Martyr, Ecclesia hac tanquam supervacua dimi•• it. But I have related those things of him, which cannot but create a good Esteem for him, in the Breast of your Lordship, who are a Faithful and Ancient Witness against those Distempers of the world, whereby (as the blessed S alvian Lamented it) Cogimur esse Viles, ut Nobises habeamur; and Raise the sweetness of your Thoughts upon Your Approaches, which may our God make both slow and sure, unto that State, wherein, The Least is Greater than this JOHN. But if I may more ingenuously, Confess the whole Ground and Cause of this Dedication, I must own, 'Tis to pay a part of a Debt; a Debt under which You have laid my Countrey, when You did with Your Own Honourable Hand, Present unto His Majesty the same Account, which I have here again Published Concerning the Success of the Gospel among the Indians in New-England.
