To the READER.

To the READER.

OF all Reading, History hath in it a most taking Delight, and no History more delightful than the Lives of good Men, it being not only pleasant, but profitable; and so while other Pleasures become a Bait to Vice, this becomes a Motive to Virtue. It may be said of such Lives as that Excellent Mr. Herbert said of Verses, A Life may find him who a Sermon flies, And turn delight into a Sacrifice.

OF all Reading, History hath in it a most taking Delight, and no History more delightfull than the Lives of good Men, it being not only pleasant, but profitable; and so while other Pleasures become a Bait to Vice, this becomes a Motive to Virtue. It may be said of such Lives as that Excellent Mr. Herbert said of Verses, A Life may find him who a Sermon flies, And turn delight into a Sacrifice.

Thou hast here a rare History of a Youth, that may be of great use and advantage both to Old and Young: That the Aged seeing themselves out-done by Green years, may gird up their loins, and mend their pace for Heaven; and that Young ones may be so wrought into the love of Religion, as it is Exemplified in this holy Person, as to endeavour with all diligence to write after his excellent Copy.

Thou hast here a rare History of a Youth, that may be of great use and advantage both to Old and Young: That the Aged seeing themselves out-done by Green years, may gird up their loyns, and mend their pace for Heaven; and that Young ones may be so wrought into the love of Religion, as it is Exemplified in this holy Person, as to endeavour with all diligence to write after his excellent Copy.

It is a great Work to die, and to die well is a greater; and no Work calls for