To the Right Honourable CHRISTOPHER PACK, LORD-MAYOR of LONDON, And the Right Worshipful ALDERMEN of the same Famous City.To the Right Honourable CHRISTOPHER PACK, LORD-MAYOR of LONDON, And the Right VVorshipfull ALDERMEN of the same Famous City.

To the Right Honourable CHRISTOPHER PACK, LORD-MAYOR of LONDON, And the Right Worshipful ALDERMEN of the same Famous City.

To the Right Honourable CHRISTOPHER PACK, LORD-MAYOR of LONDON, And the Right VVorshipfull ALDERMEN of the same Famous City.

My Lord,

AS you had nothing besides the naked amiableness of the subject, to render these Sermons acceptable, so I have nothing but my Obedience to Magistracy to preface their publication. Must I not by your eyes see, & by your faith believe, these truths thus clouded in their discovery, profitable? But seeing you Surprise me with an Order, Give me leave to follow ⟨image 3⟩your Order, further, then perhaps you think it leads me, and that is, to retort it back upon your own consciences.

AS you had nothing besides the naked amiablenes of the subject, to render these Sermons acceptable, so I have nothing but my Obedience to Magistracy to preface their publication. Must I not by your eies see, & by your faith believe, these truths thus clouded in their discovery, profitable? But seeing you Surprise me with an Order, Give me leave to follow ⟨image 3⟩your Order, further, then perhaps you thinke it leades me, and that is, to retort it back upon your own consciences.

Your commands (for such are your desires) (all superiors desires being commands enamelled with humility) give a Solemn avouchment of the Truths you heard, and therefore if you do henceforth in the least depart from God, or prefer any thing, I speak the word again, Any thing, before him, you transgress not only Gods laws, but your own, and such kind of Sinning against your own concessions, is more heinous then barely to sin against God.