The Jailors Jail, Title page – Dedication
THE IAYLERS IAYL-DELIVERY. Preached at Great Saint Maries in CAMBRIDGE, the 6. of February. 1619.
By HENRY GREENVVOOD, Maſter of Art, and Preacher of the Word of God.
1. PET. 5. 5. God reſiſteth the proud, and giueth grace to the humble.
AT LONDON Printed by George Purſlow, for Henry Bell, and are to be ſold at his Shop, at the ſigne of the Sunne in Bethlem. 1620.
TO THE RIGHT WORTHY AND WORSHIPFVLL Mrs IANE BVRGOYNE, Wife to the Right Worſhipfull M. IOHN BVRGOYNE of Sutton in Bedford, and Daughter to the Right Worſhipfull Mr. WILLIAM KEMPE, of Spainſhall in Fiching-field Eſſex, Eſquire, all encreaſe of grace from the Father of light and of life be moſt heartily commended.(*⁎*)
RIght vertuous and much belou'd and grac'd of God, J cannot but preſent this trembling, (yet not all trembling) Tractate to you, partly knowing how welcome holy ſubiects are vntounto your ſoule, and eſpecially conſidering your importunity for a written Copie of the ſame.
It is not fit that holy things bee giuen to dogges, nor pearles be caſt to ſwine: but matters diuine, to perſons denoute moſt meete for preſentment, both for godly vſe, and ſtrong defence againſt diſgracers of them.
J hauehave therefore made this Jayler your Priſoner, and committed him to your ſafe watch and warde: looke what paines you take, and time expend about him, the Preacher of deliuerance to all Captiues, Luke 4. 18. will one day moſt faithfully and richly reward.
I pray hauehave an eye alwayes vntounto him, ſee him ſicke, ſee him ſound, ſee him condemned, ſee him ſaued, ſee his paſſage through Hell to Heauen: Let his example be your inſtruction, his feare your humbling, his faith your happying: you muſt bee touchd with Legall attrition, or elſe no taſte of heauenly remiſſion.
Let not his Hell deſpaire you, nor his Heauen preſume you: but by the one, hold awe of God and feare, and by the other, hope of happineſſe for euer.
Now the Lord adde vntounto your glory by theſe and other holy helps and meanes, and his beſt bleſſings bee multiplyed vponupon you, your learned, louing, and religious Huſband, and all your tender Oliuebranches, for his deare Chriſts ſake.
Amen.
From Hempſtead in Eſſex, this 3. of April. 1620. Your Worſhips faithfull welwiller, and euer to bee commanded in the Lord, HENRY GREENVVOOD.