The works of ..vindicating the church of England, as truly christian, and duly reformed: in eight books of ecclesiastical polityNow compleated, as with the sixth and eighth, so with the seventh, (touching episcopacy, as the primitive, catholick and apostolick government of the church) out of his own manuscripts, never before publishedWith an account of his holy life, and happy death . God,or the Affeftion of God to himMflbeof this note, who (hall make a• feparation between me and my Godfftiall tribulation,or anguift^,orpcrfecution,orfa-minc,or nakcdnefs,or peril,or fword?NoiI am perftvaded tha
The works of ..vindicating the church of England, as truly christian, and duly reformed: in eight books of ecclesiastical polityNow compleated, as with the sixth and eighth, so with the seventh, (touching episcopacy, as the primitive, catholick and apostolick government of the church) out of his own manuscripts, never before publishedWith an account of his holy life, and happy death . God,or the Affeftion of God to himMflbeof this note, who (hall make a• feparation between me and my Godfftiall tribulation,or anguift^,orpcrfecution,orfa-minc,or nakcdnefs,or peril,or fword?NoiI am perftvaded that neither tribulation, perlecution,nor famine,nor nakednefs,nor peril nor fword,nor death,noriife,nor Angela, nor principalities,nor powers^nor things prefent, nor things to come,nor height nor dtptb, nor any other creature fhall ever prevail fo far over me. I knowin I have bcleived ; 1 am not ignorant whofe precious blood hath been (hed forme;l have a fiicpheard full of kindncfs,full of care, and full of power: untobiinl com-mit my fclf; his own finger hath engraven thisfentencc in the Tables of my heart; Satan hath defired to tp/>«cW thee as vheat I have prated that thj faith fail net. Thereforethe alTurance of my hope I will labour to keep as a Jewel unto the end,aad by labour,through the gracious mediation of his prayer, I (hall keep it. To. To the VVoi fhipful eorge Summaster, Principal of Broad-Gates Hall m Oxford ^ Henry fadfon vTillieth all Happinefji. SIR, Onr kind acceptance of a former tejiification ofthatrefpei^I orveyoH^ hath made me venture tofien> the World thefegodly Sermons under your name. In which:, ^^ every pointif worth oifervation , fo fome efpecially are to be noted,, as thefpirit of Prophecy is from Godhimfelfwho doth inwardly heat and enlighten the hearts andminds of his holy Ten-men:, (which if fome would diligent-ly confider-^they would not puzzle themfelves with the contentions of Scot, andThomas,
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