join in a serious and solemn Commemoration of the Death Passion Love and Merits of our dying Lord when like Brethren of the same Society and of the same Family they symbolize together in Celebration of the Holy Eucharist eating at the same Table of the same Bread drinking of the same Wine in memory of that blessed Body and Blood which were both given for the Nourishment of us to Eternal Life when we commemorate his Cross with a Croud of Passions and crucisie our Lusts with a warm Devotion and look upon our Saviour's immense Love with weeping Eyes and wondering Hearts Faith Gladness and great Delight and with one Consent enter our selves afresh under his Banner to engage all the sinful Powers of the World and promise faithfully to be all for the time to come better Servants and more faithful in the precedure of our Lives When we solemnize the Memory of our dearest Saviour and his Love like loving Disciples with an ingenuous return of hearty Love to him agen and with a mutual Love to one another When Humility Faith Obedience and Charity all meet at the Passover together and we are in quarrel with nothing but what God himself quarrels at Sin and Hell Psal 96.6 8. The Glory for which we worship is exceeding beautiful If we consider 1. The Description given of it in Sacred Scripture under the Mosaic Oeconomy it was represented by Types and Emblems and figurative Expressions for in truth the Intellectuals of Mankind were then so gross and cloudy that they had need of Pictures and sensible Ideas to make things spiritual invisible and future intelligible and 't is not much better with Mankind now tho' the World be grown older yet not much wiser We have still need of Material Instruments and Opticks to help us forward in Quest of the World to come The Land of Canaan the Milk Oyl Honey and exceeding fruitfulness of the place were a lively Figure of the promised Inheritance They stuck then so deep in the Mud and adhered so close to the present World that it was hard to draw them over to abstracted and lofty speculations and therefore God Almighty indulged their Infancy of Reason and Judgment so far as to give them a Prospect of Heaven in a fine spot of ground here on Earth A sight of Life everlasting and the World to come in a piece of clear Landskip in this World But a Brighter discovery was reserved to these last times of the World when Men were come to some maturity of Age and Judgment and able to lay aside their Fescues and throw away their Pictures and ruder Elements they had been accustomed to and exercised in so that now we have as full a Discovery and Description of the future Glory revealed to us as we are capable at present of receiving And here I must confess the Beauty is so dazling the Apprehension so amazing that a deep Meditation upon it would go near to strike our Thoughts into a perfect stupor and incuriousness about the things of this World Life and Immortality are brought to light thro' the Gospel but such a light as we are able to receive and no more 2. The Nature of it collected from the chief Topicks of Consideration 1. God himself the Object and Author 2. The Design and Intention 1. God himself the Object and Author Of which I shall say but little for when we stare long upon such Transcendent Objects our Senses fail us and we commonly find our selves at our Wits end We may indeed discourse modestly about them and think at present so far as to make our Thoughts quick and Devotion lively but whatsoever is more than this is more than meet Can we think that that God who made the World and made us with so much Wisdom and exercised a continual Providence over us for so many thousands of Years did not mean some excellent admirable End at the last for the Reward of that Creature which was made the top of all the visible Creation For my part I expect to see and I think upon excellent Reason too the God of Mercy admit me in favour to that Enjoyment the most ravishing sight that ever was or will be in the Vniverse There and then I hope to see what will be the product and effect of that Infinite Wisdom Power and Goodness that first made and now maintains this World Then the Glory of all his Attributes will be made known and exposed to open view and Oh! the Beauty of that Prospect and therefore 2. The Design and Intention of it being to set forth the Divine Glory and Man's Happiness it must needs be full of Beauty As the Case stands with us now a little a lighter kind of Happiness would serve our turns Our Bodies are very frail our Intellectuals very infirm our Natures so bemired with sin and vicious Inclinations that a Mahomet's Paradise or an Elysian Field or a good Constitution of Body and a pleasant Soul and some cheerful Company and a full Purse or Barn would go a great way with us But when the Body is raised incorruptible and all the Man's Faculties renewed and repaired we shall not be content with that Draff we feed on now but call for Manna Angels food more glorious Objects and refined Notions and a clearer Medium for the Conveyance of Idea's and Communion with Spirits and then every thing will be and appear in its due place and order God Angels Men every sense and faculty suited and filled with its meet Object All things full of beauty and Glory without any intermixture of Deformity Defect or Disorder The supream Being in his Throne of Majesty and all his Creatures in their proper places of Subjection and Glory reciprocating the Acts of a Holy Sweet and blessed Communion one with another To which Blessed Estate the Lord grant that both he that writes and he that reads these Lines may be admitted for the sake of our dear Redeemer the Holy Jesus We shall now in the next place come to consider First The Deformity of an unholy life opposita juxta se c. 1. Sin is full of Deformity of its own nature 'T is all of it an Ireegularity a divaricating from the Rule a trangression of the Holy Law of God a disobedience to the Divine Precept a going aside into By-paths and Errors 2. It renders us uncomely and deformed in the sight of God Good Angels and Good Men They look not upon us with that loving eye that liking and approbation that pleasure and delight as upon the righteous and him that fears God As for the former 't is called by God in Scripture Abomination and that which his soul abhors so is all injustice diverse weights and measures proud looks and hypocritical prayers and in a word all the kinds of sin nay the Prophet tells us His Eyes cannot endure to look upon iniquity and besides he hates them so that he will never suffer these qualities to come into his
Letters are herewith Publish'd was a person of great Understanding and Wit The Scene of his Life lay chiefly in Voyages and Expeditions by Sea whereby he made many laborious Attempts to repair the Collapsed Estate of his Ancestors but it pleased not God to give him the Success he hoped for therein It is wholly unfit for any Writer to touch upon any irreligious Principles or Practises that were as stains in his Life since he hath by his own Noble Pen in the following Letters acknowledged them and by his most exemplary Repentance washed them off Mr. Roger Coke in the second Volume of his Detection p. 142 mentions That the Fight wherein the Duke of York beat the Dutch and Opdam was blown up was the 3d. of June 1665. and that in this Fight the English lost the Renown'd Earl of Marlbourgh who tho' Admiral in K. Charles the firsts time died here a private Captain But it pleased God in that Naval Expedition to work in him such a sense of his Sins as did infinitely make amends for the former disappointments he met with by Sea or Land The Date of his first Letter being the 24th of April and that of the Second the 23d of May following will satisfie any Candid Reader that the New Birth in him was accompanied with many pangs and efforts of great Consideration during the firmness of his bodily Health and much transcending the low Nature of poor Death-bed Repentances which are so justly suspected by our Practical Divines of all perswasions And here it is necessary to acquaint the Reader that these two Letters of distant Dates were sent by his Lordship from the Royal Navy inclosed in other Letters to Mr Tredewy his Lordship's Agent in London with a particular Instruction both as to that to Sir Hugh Pollard and that to Mr. Glascok that each of them was to be delivered when Mr. Tredewy was credibly inform'd of his Lordships Death His design being that his Pen should Preach Repentance to the World in case he lived not to be a personal Adviser thereof himself The Publisher hereof assures the Reader that both the Letters had a happy influence on the lives of the two persons to whom they were directed and that Sir Hugh Pollard having lent the Original Letter which was sent to him to Sir W. Davenant to shew it to whom he pleased Sir William shew'd it to the Publisher among many others And that Mr. Glascock permitted the Publisher to take a Copy of that Letter directed to him The Reader may then awaken his most serious Thoughts to consider the two following Letters A Letter from the right Honourable James Earl of Marlbourgh a little before his Death in the Battle at Sea on the Coast of Holland 1665. To the right Honourable Sir Hugh Pollard Comptroller of His Majesties Household Sir I Believe the goodness of your Nature See Dr. Loyd's fair warning to a careless world for a Copy of this Letter of the Earl of Marlbourgh to Sir Hugh Pollard and the Friendship you have always born me will receive with kindness this last Office of your Friend I am in Health enough of Body and through the mercy of God in Jesus Christ well disposed in mind This I premise that you may be satisfied that what I write proceeds not from any Phantastick Terror of mind but from a sober Resolution of what concerns my self and earnest desire to do you more good after my death than mine Example God of his mercy pardon the badness of it in my Life-time may have done you harm I will not speak ought of the Vanity of this World your own Age and Experience will save that labour but there is a certain thing that goes up and down in the World call'd Religion Drest and Presented Phantastically and to purposes bad enough which yet by such evil Dealing loseth not its Being The great and good God hath not lest it without a Witness more or less sooner or later in every mans bosom to direct us in the pursuit of it and for the avoiding of those Inextricable difficulties and intanglements our own frail Reason would perplex us withal God in his infinite mercy has given us his Holy Word in which as there are many things hard to be Understood so there is enough plain and easie to be understood to quiet our minds and direct us concerning our future being I confess to God and you I have been a great neglecter and I fear despiser of it God of his infinite mercy pardon me that dreadful Fault but when I retired my self from the noise and deceitful Vanities of the world I found no true comfort in any other Resolution than what I had from thence I commend the same from the bottom of my Heart to your I hope happy use Dear Sir Hugh let us be more generous than to believe we die like Beasts that perish but with a Christian Manly brave Ambition let us look to what is Eternal I will not trouble you farther the only Great and Holy God Father Son and Holy Ghost direct you to an happy end of your Life and send us a joyful Resurrection So prays your dear Friend Marlbourgh Old James near the Coast of Holland 24th of April 1665. I beseech you commend my love to all my Acquaintance Particularly I pray you that my Cozen Glascock may have a sight of this Letter and as many of my Friends beside as you will or any else that desireth it I pray grant this my Request To William Glascock Esq May the 23. 1665 Dear Cozen IN case I be called away by God in this present Employment This Letter to Mr. Glascock was never printed before but is attested to be genuine in the following Specimen I have recommended these few Lines to you first earnestly begging God Almighty his most merciful Pardon and yours for the very bad example and many provocations to sin I have given you Next I do most heartily desire you to make use of your Remaining Time in bestowing it upon his Service who only can be your Comfort at your latter end when all the former Pleasures of your Life shall only leave Anguish and Remorse If God had spared me Life instead of this Paper I would through his Grace have endeavoured to have been as assistful to you in minding you of true Piety as the care of my own life could have enabled me do not think that Melancholly Vapours cause this it is Gods great mercy that by this Employment hath made me know my self for which his Name be for ever Praised Lastly I Pray shew these few Lines to my Lord of Portland by which I in like manner and for the same cause crave his pardon wishing you both the blessed peace and content of a good Conscience towards God and a happy end of your Lives Your truly Loving Cozen Marlbourgh My Lord Marlbourgh's Letter to Sir Hugh Pollard having been disperst throughout the Kingdom this Remarkable Penetence of his Lordship
was the Subject of general Discourse for a long time after and 't is not doubted but that his Lordship's Letter to Mr. Glascock which was never printed but in this Specimen will be as well received and 't is hoped may have the same good Effect as the former had The Gentleman who hath communicated to us these Letters sent by the Earl of Marlbourgh to Sir Hugh Pollard and Mr. Glascock is a Person of Quality now living in London and if any one hath the curiosity to be satisfied from his own mouth about perfect certainty of the matters therein Related if he repairs to Mr. Darker in Bull-head-Court near Cripple-gate he will be always ready to bring any Gentleman to speak with him for further confirmation It must needs be obvious to every considering Reader that the same holy spirit who breath'd from the mouth of Solomon the wisest of men That all things in this World are Vanity and Vexation of Spirit did make this Great Man sensible of the Truth thereof by his own Experience and to express it accordingly and how observable is it that that very Truth which he so ingeniously confesses himself to have neglected and dispised did at last make an entire Conquest over him and force him to submit as if God would thereby let us see that though not many Noble and not many Wise are called yet he does not leave the Gospel without a Testimony even from such but obliges them to confess That the Wisdom of this World is meer Foolishness with God which will appear yet more by the following Instances It 's taken notice of that Sir * In Sir Alan Brodericks Funeral Sermon by Nathan Resbury Minister of Wandsworth Decemb. 3. 1680. Alan Broderick who was a Gentleman of Extraordinary Learning and Accomplishments did own with much Contrition that a Long Scene of his Life had been acted in the Sports and Follies of Sin that he had sometime pursued a Pagan and abandon'd way Scepticism it self not excepted wherein the poinancy of his Wit and the strength of his Reasoning even in that very Argument the using of which proclaims a man in the Language of the Holy Scriptures a Fool may have been the occasion of a great deal of mischief towards some that are already gone to their Accounts Yet some years before his Death the bent and tendency of his Life and Actions was Devout and Religious and in his Private Conversation with his Minister he would alway be Discoursing some Cases of Conscience about Retir'd Closet-prayer or the Nature and Necessity of True Religion and in his last Sickness he thought himself under a mighty Incumbency to Pray but was much harassed and anxious what to do because of his fear of not performing it with all becoming Reverence and Seriousness For look you saith he my Conscience is now as tender as wet Paper torn upon every apprehension of the least guilt before God And as he had much studied the Nature of Repentance he would frequently complain That he had a great jealousie upon himself least he had not yet conceiv'd an horror answerable to his past Exorbitancies of Life and had not made those smart and pungent Reflections upon himself that might become one that had so long and in such Exalted Degrees violated the Laws of his Maker and made himself so Obnoxious to the Vengeance of his Judgment and that if the cutting off one of his Hands with the other were but a proper or likely way through the anguish of such a wound to give him a just horror for his sins he would do that as willingly as he ever did any one Action that had given him the greatest pleasure of Life He also said that by the grace of God he had such a sense of the Conviction and folly and unreasonableness of Sin that no Argument no Tentation should prevail upon him to do the like again Having taken notice that all my Lord Rochesters Religious breathings were accounted by some the Raves and Delirancies of a sick Brain he did resolve to have given the World a publick Account of the sentiments he had of Religion both as to the Faith and Practise of it but was prevented But the next instance of the E. of Rochester is still more convincing who as it appears by his Funeral Sermon did with very much abhorrence exclaim against that absurd and foolish Philosophy which the World so much admired and was propagated by the late Mr. Hobbs and others which had undone him and many more of the best parts of the Nation * See my Lord Rochester's Funeral Sermon preached by Mr. Parsons Aug. 9. 1680. My Lord Rochester being awak'd from his spiritual Slumber by a pungent Sickness as appears by his Funeral Sermon Preached by Mr. Parsons Augufl 9. 1680. Upon the Preachers first visit to him May 26. My Lord thank'd God who had in Mercy and good Providence sent him to him who so much needed his Prayers and Counsels acknowledging how unworthily heretofore he had treated that Order of men reproaching them that they were proud and Prophesied only for rewards but now he had learnt how to value them that he esteem'd them the Servants of the most High God who were to shew to him the way to everlasting Life At the same time continues our Author I found him labouring under strange trouble and conflicts of Mind his Spirit wounded and his Conscience full of terrours Upon his Journey he told me that he had been arguing with greater vigour against God and Religion than ever he had done in his Life time before and that he was resolv'd to run them down with all the Arguments and Spite in the World but like the great Convert St. Paul he found it hard to kick against the Pricks for God at that time had so struck his heart by his immediate hand that presently he argued as strongly for God and Vertue as before he had done against it that God strangely opened his heart creating in his mind most awful and tremendous Thoughts and Ideas of the Divine Majesty with a delightful Contemplation of the Divine Nature and Attributes and of the Loveliness of Religion and Vertue I never said he was advanc'd thus far towards happiness in my Life before tho' upon the commissions of some Sins extraordinary I have had some checks and warnings considerable from within but still struggl'd with them and so wore them off again The most observable that I remember was this One day at an Atheistical meeting at a Person of Qualities I undertook to manage the Cause and was the principal Disputant against God and Piety and for my performances receiv'd the Applause of the whole Company upon which my Mind was terribly struck and I immediately replied thus to my self Good God! That a man that walks upright that sees the wonderful Works of God and has the uses of his Sence and Reason should use them to the defying of his Creator But tho' this was
a good beginning to my Conversion to find my Conscience touch'd for my sins yet it went off again Nay all my Life long I had a secret value and reverence for an honest man and lov'd morality in others But I had form'd an odd Scheme of Religion to my self which would solve all that God or Conscience might force upon me yet I was not over-well reconcil'd to the business of Christianity nor had that Reverence for the Gospel of Christ as I ought to have which estate of Mind continu'd till the 53d Chapter of Isaiah was read to him and some other portions of Scripture by the Power and Efficacy of which Word assisted by his Holy Spirit God so wrought upon his heart that he declar'd that the mysteries of the Passion appear'd so clear and plain to him as ever any thing did that was represented in a Glass so that that joy and admiration which possessed his Soul upon the reading God's Word to him was remarkable to all about him and he had so much delight in his Testimonies that in my absence he begg'd his Mother and Lady to read the same to him frequently and was unsatisfied notwithstanding his great pains and weakness till he had learn'd the 53d of Isaiah without Book At the same time discoursing of his Manner of Life from his Youth up which all men knew was too much devoted to the service of Sin and that the Lusts of the Flesh the Eye and the Pride of Life had captivated him he was very large and particular in his acknowledgments about it more ready to accuse himself than any one else could be publickly crying out O blessed God! Can such an horrit Creature as I am be accepted by thee who has denied thy Being and contemn'd thy Power asking often Can there be mercy and Pardon for me Will God own such a Wretch as I and in the middle of his Sickness said Shall the unspeakable joys of Heaven be conferr'd on me O mighty Saviour never but through thine Infinite Love and Satisfaction O never but by the purchase of thy Blood adding that with all abhorrency he did reflect upon his former Life that sincerely and from his heart he did repent of all that folly and madness which he had committed He had a true and lively sence of God's great Mency to him in striking his hard heart saying If that God who died for great as well as lesser Sinners did not speedily apply his infinite Merits to his poor Soul his wound was such as no man could conceive or bear crying out That he was the vilest Wretch and Dog that the Sun shined upon or the Earth bore That now he saw his Error in not living up to that Reason which God endued him with and which he unworthily vilified and contemned wish'd he had been a starving Leper crawling in a Ditch that he had been a Link-Boy or a Beggar or for his whole life time confin'd to a Dungeon rather than thus to have sinned against God How remarkable was his Faith in a hearty embracing and devout Confession of all the Articles of the Christian Religion and all the Divine Mysteries of the Gospel saying that that absurd and foolish Philosophy which the World so much admir'd propagated by the late Mr. Hobs and others had undone him and many more of the best Parts of the Nation He cast himself entirely upon the mercies of Jesus Christ and the Free-Grace of God declared to repenting Sinners through him with a thankful Remembrance of his Life Death and Resurrection begging God to strengthen his Faith and often crying out Lord I believe help thou mine unbelief His mighty love and esteem of the Holy Scriptures his resolutions to read them frequently and meditate upon them if God should spare him having already tasted the good Word for having spoken to his heart he acknowledged all the seeming absurdities and contradictions thereof fancied by men of corrupt and reprobate Judgments were vanished and the Excellency and Beauty appeared being come to receive the Truth in the love of it How terribly did the Tempter assault him by casting upon him wicked and lewd imaginations But I thank God said he I abhor them all and by the power of his grace which I am sure is sufficient for me I have overcome them 't is the malice of the Devil because I am rescued from him and the goodness of God that frees me from all my spiritual enemies He was greatly rejoiced at his Ladies Conversion from Popery which he called a Faction supported only by Fraud and Cruelty He was heartily concerned for the pious education of his Children wishing that his Son might never be a Wit that is as he explain'd it One of those wretched creatures who pride themselves in abusing God and Religion denying his Being or his Providence but that he might become an honest and a religious Man which could only be the support and blessing of his Family He gave a strict charge to those persons in whose custody his Papers were to burn all his prophane and lewd Writings as being only sit to promote Vice and Immorality by which he had so highly offended God and shamed and blasphemed that holy Religion into which he had been baptized and all his obscene and filthy Pictures which were so notoriously scandalous I must not pass by his pious and most passionate exclamation to a Gentleman of some Character who came to visit him upon his Death-Bed O remember that you contemn God no more he is on avenging God and will visit you for your sins will in mercy I hope touch your Conscience sooner or later as he has done mine You and I have been Friends and Sinners together a great while therefore I am the more free with you We have been all mistaken in our Conceits and Opinions Our Persuasions have been false and groundless therefore God grant you repentance And seeing him again next day said to him Perhaps you were disobliged by my plainness to you yesterday I spake the words of truth and soberness to you and striking his hand upon his Breast said I hope God will touch your heart He commanded me continues our Author to Preach abroad and let all men know if they knew it not already how severely God had Disciplin'd him for his sins by his afflicting hand that his Sufferings were most just tho' he had laid ten thousand times more upon him how he had laid one stripe upon another because of his grievous provocations till he had brought him home to himself that in his former Visitations he had not that blessed Effect he was now sensible of He had formerly some loose thoughts and slight resolutions of reforming and designed to be better because even the present consequences of sin were still pestering him and were so troublesome and inconvenient to him but now he had other sentiments of things and acted upon other Principles He was willing to die if it pleased God resigning himself
and sorrow to repent of all their sins and provocations least God's Vengeance overtake them in their Security and there be no Remedy And I beseech them farther to take Notice that if this Warning be slighted the wilfull neglect and Refusal thereof will at last be charged upon them as a heinous Aggravation of all their Sins they shall hereater commit will encrease their Condemnation and make their Doom more dreadful and terrible But that it may have a contrary effect and be a means to reduce 'em from their Sins to a Holy and Religious Life that so their Souls may be saved in the great Day of the Lord is the earnest desire of their Languishing and sorrowful Friend Duncomb Colchester Who desires this may be read in the Parish Churches of Michel Dean and Westbury and shewn to such Gentlemen Friends and others as may bring God most Glory Nov. 1693. Signed and Delivered in the presence of several of his Friends The other Letter is written by a Woman The remarkable penitence of J. H. and one of inferior quality in the World but not at all inferior in her Repentance It was that and the Grace of God in her Heart which moved her to do it long before it wasdone and it was the pure effect of that when at last it was done and all her own composure we are assured by a credible person who hath most reason to know it who gave her absolution approved her purpose in it and perused it when she had done it and hath seen other Letters of her writing by which he could easily discern the Composure of this if there had been any other hand in it or any reason to suspect it It is published with her consent who is very ready to embrace any Motion tending to the Honour and Service of God or her own Humiliation Her Letter was directed to Mr. Minister in Portsmouth and is as follows viz. Reverend Sir I Have put Pen to Paper humbly beseeching you to hear me of your Charity a few Words The Enemy of my Soul hath raised many Objections to hinder my intended purpose and I have been almost perswaded to give it over but now having the advice of a Pious Holy Minister of God who says it may be of great use I desire to take shame to my self and to give Glory to the Majesty of Heaven who in great Love and Pitty hath pluckt me as a Firebrand out of the Fire and I am this day a Living Monument of Mercy I cannot but be grieved at the many sad Examples I have given at Portsmouth My Sins have have encreased the heap of the publick Impieties and made them cry the louder to Heaven for Vengeance both there and here too It is very meet right and my duty to confess to the Glory of God and Praise of his Grace my crying sins committed in that place that some of my Companions in evil may hear and fear and do no more such wickedness About 9 or 10 years agone I came a young Woman if I deserve that name to P my Husband Cook of a Ship in that Harbour a very ill Husband no excuse for me Almighty God did suffer two sinners to come together to plague one another and whilst he acted the part of a Drukard with shame and confusion of face be it spoken I acted the part of a Harlot giving my self over to work all uncleanness with greediness insomuch that my very Name was a Proverb of Reproach to all Civil Women Two or three years I lived openly scandalous and then it pleased the Almighty to visit me with a sore fit fit of Sickness even to the loss of my Limbs for a Season at which time I did beg of God to restore me to my Health and did faithfully promise never more to defile my Marriage Bed and the Lord was intreated at that time also and hath added to my life these remaining years Some time after it pleased the All-wise Providence to make me a Mother I was very thankful for the Mercy and was much reclaimed and I was in some measure convinced of the great Evil of sin and did put pen to paper with intent it should come to the Ministers hand but the Enemies of my Soul prevented and hindred that reasonable design and I was again lull'd to sleep in the Bed of Carnal Security where I continued three or four years with little Interruption in which time I buried my Husband and two Children After this I was in danger of being as bad as ever living at Service in the very midst of Temptation at Porthridge I continued there but a short space for the good hand of Providence brought me to London where I had time and opportunity to reflect upon my ill spent life O that I might improve the mercy O that I could tell you what God hath done for my Soul He hath brought me out of Darkness into his marvellous light O that I could prevail with my Companions in evil to seek the Lord while he may be found and call upon him while he is near Some of them are old Sinners grey hairs are upon them and they know it not I could be content to stand in a white shet in your Church if I might but prevail with any one Soul to see the heinousness of my sin Nay I could be content to be stoned without the walls of the Garrison so I might but be a means of the Conversion of any one Sinner O that I could write these Lines with my purest Blood I am grieved for the Dishonour I have done to God by my abominable sin and heartily wish my Head were Waters and mine Eyss were a Fountain of Tears that I might weep day and night for abusing mercy O Sir you live in a place relating to Sodom cry aloud spare not to tell the Flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you Overseer their Sins and my Companions in evil their Sins The Lord is coming to reckon with the Nations and with you God grant you may be found among the Faithful Shepherds watching them and giving them their meat in due Season I humbly beg your Blessing desiring to be remembred in your Prayers and I humbly beseech the Almighty that this poor paper may have its designed effect that God may be glorifi'd and our Souls saved in the day of the Lord Jesus Amen and Amen J. H. Jan. 22. 1693 4. To this SPECIMEM we designed to have added several other Remarkable Instances of this nature never yet in Print but for want of room cou'd not insert 'em here But though this Specimen will not allow of instances under every head for if it wou'd we had added Specimens upon the Works of Nature and Art as we have done here upon Providence having prepared materials for that end yet b y what is here exhibited the ingenious Reader may easily perceive the usefulness of our design and as a farther Evidence thereof we shall only add That under
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