. Usury stated overthrown, or, Usuries champions with their auxiliaries, shamefully disarmed and beaten : by an answer to its chief champion which lately appeared in print to defend it, and godliness epitomized . them, blejjed be God: but one dramof Spiritul Grace,one Glimpfe of JehovahV Face,one Glance from one of ChriJPs Love-like Eyes,one Drop of his precious Blood, one Draught ofhis jweetefi Wines of Love, one Sip of his Di-vine Confolations, will do you more good thanall this Worlds Goods. And therefore, let thatbe thought upon, and laboured after, above allthings : for then, I fay again,
. Usury stated overthrown, or, Usuries champions with their auxiliaries, shamefully disarmed and beaten : by an answer to its chief champion which lately appeared in print to defend it, and godliness epitomized . them, blejjed be God: but one dramof Spiritul Grace,one Glimpfe of JehovahV Face,one Glance from one of ChriJPs Love-like Eyes,one Drop of his precious Blood, one Draught ofhis jweetefi Wines of Love, one Sip of his Di-vine Confolations, will do you more good thanall this Worlds Goods. And therefore, let thatbe thought upon, and laboured after, above allthings : for then, I fay again, you will be ableto echoe forth thefe Words from your veryHeart, and from an undeceiving Experience :Oh, what an Ocean of ineffable Delights do nowoverflow me, and what a Mafs of Heavens Blifsfur rounds me ! But I intend to clofe up this E-piflle with fraying thus. May Heavens Blefsfing be dropped down upon my poor Labours,and upon the Head of this Noble Lord to whomI exarate and write thefe Lines ; that he,reading andpratlifing the fame on Earth, mayreap the beneft thereof above in Heaven; re-ceiving an Eternal and Immarceffible Crown ofGlory, Your Lordfhips Moft Humble Servant, Chriftopher Jelinger? TO. To the Moji Nolle Charles Pawlet, LordMarquefs of Winchefter , Graceand Mercy be multiplied* Highly Honour ahle^ Ay it pleafe your Lordfhip to per*mit your moft humble Servantto make this Addrels to yourHonour. And firft to give anAccount of my boldnefs therein ihown |Your Honour knows how long I havebeena Tenant to your Noble Father, and to yourHonourable Self alfo ; and I remember howready you have been to offer me a SpiritualLiving for my Preferment; fo that I couldnot but refledtupon that, and all other Fa-vours with Thankfulnefs, and to ereft, asit were, a Monument of my Gratitude bydedicating this Treatife to your Honour:hoping that if you will be pleafed to improveit, Godlinefs Epitomized, contained there-in, will bring you to be fo familiar withChrift, that great King
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