Pauls Crown of Rejoicing, Title page – Dedication
PAVLS CROVVNE OF REIOYCING.OR The manner how to heare the Word with profit.
By THOMAS GRANGER preacher of the word at Botterwike in Holland, neere Boſton in Lincolnſhire.
IAMES 1. 12.
Bleſſed is the man that endureth temptation, for when he is tried, hee ſhall receiue the Crowne of life, which the Lord hath promiſed to them that louelove him.
LONDON: Printed by T. S. for Thomas Pauier, and are to be ſold at his ſhop in Yuie lane. 1616.
TO THE WORSHIPFVL and vertuous Lady, the Lady, IOAN ALTHAM, temporall happineſſe, and eternall bleſſedneſſe.
GOOD MADAME:
MAY it pleaſe your Ladyſhip to accept this ſmall treatiſe, of the right hearing of the word. Small it is, not in reſpect of the ſubiect; for to be a good hearer is no leſſe excellent a gift of grace, then to be a good ſpeaker: but in reſpect of the forme, phraſe, and manner of handling thereof, wherein I hauehave faſhioned my ſelfe to the capacitie of vulgar ignorant people, euen ſuch like as by Gods prouidence I hauehave heene called vntounto, who are fitter for milke then ſtrong meates. Yet whatſoeuer it is, ſuch it ſhall be, as your Ladiſhip ſhall accept it, and to ſpeake ingeniouſly without flatterie, which J euer hated, your amiable diſpoſition to Vertue, & Piety, in your yong age, as I well obſerued, when heretofore I liued at the houſe of the good Knight Sir Iohn Leuenthorp your father; and my often remembrance thereof vponupon occaſions, and now vponupon this occaſion alſo, as alſo the ſingular duty that I owe to your ancient, and truly honoured familie, and to you in ſpeciall, hauehave moued me, and made me the bolder to offer this vnworthy Preſent vntounto you, deſiring you to accept it only as a token of a thankfull minde, and ſincere affection; which remaine euer diſpoſed to the performance of any ſeruice wherein your Ladiſhip by me may be pleaſured.
Your Ladiſhips in all dutie to command THOMAS GRANGER. From Botterwike in Holland, neere Boſton in Lincolnſhire. 1616.