Meditations and Disquisitions Upon Psalm 1, Title page – Imprimatur
MEDITATIONS AND DISQVISITIONS UPON The first Psalme of DAVID.
Blessed is the Man.
By Sr. RICHARD BAKER, Knight.
LONDON, Printed by Edward Griffin, for Anne Bowler, and are to be sold at the Marigold, in Pauls Churchyard. 1638.
TO THE Right Honorable THOMAS Lord COVENTRY Baron of Ailesborough, and Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of ENGLAND.
My Honoured Lord: He may truely be said, a happy man; Cui omnes bene volunt: But more truely hee, Cui omnes bene velle debent: and in both these Rights, I may justly pronounce your Lordship, happy: yet there is a better Title, for asserting Happinesse to you, than both these: That your Delight is in the Law of the Lord; and in his Law will exercise your selfe, both Day and Night: For now, it is not the World; it is not I; it is David himselfe, that pronounceth you happy: and give me leave, my Lord, to shew you the Picture of a happy man, drawne here by David; and let all the World judge, if it resemble not you: and that so neere, that not any in our Age; and I may say, nor yet in many Ages, hath beene more like it. And having shewed you this; my part remaines, onelyonly to Pray; that you may long enjoy this happinesse as a fruite of your vertue here; and come at last, to bee like the Tree it selfe; which will yeeld you a fruit of happinesse, that shall never fade; nor so much as the leafes of it, ever wither: for how should they wither, when In memoria aeterna erit Iustus? Thus he prayeth that is
Your Lordships humble and devoted servant,
RICHARD BAKER.
Recensui Tractatum hunc in Psalmum primum, à Domino Bakero scriptum; eum que typis mandari permitto; modò intra 3. Menses proximè sequentes imprimatur.
SA. BAKER. Octob. 25. 1637. Ex Aedib. Londini.