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THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DORCAS.
VVHEREIN, HEE that pleaſeth to reade, may finde both good direction for the ordering of his Courſe: AND A neceſſary warning to be prepared for his End.
By SAMVEL HIERON.
Pſalm. 92. ver. 12.
The righteous ſhall flouriſh like a Palme tree, and ſhall grow like a Cedar in Lebanon.
LONDON, Printed by MELCH. BRADWOOD for SAMVEL MACHAM, and are to be ſold at his ſhop in Pauls Church-yard at the ſigne of the Bulhead. 1612.
TO MY MVCH HOnoured Lady, the Ladie MARGARET HELE of Weuburie in Deuon.
MAdame, many things, which I hauehave obſerued in you, do euen aſſure me, that this ſmall preſent ſhall finde ſome fauour with you: theſe two eſpecially; your reuerent estimation of the ordinance of God (the word preached) and your more particular reſpect vntounto my miniſtrie: Other things I could name, but that I do abhorre the very ſmell and ſhadow of flatterie. It hath pleaſed you ſome time, to craue of me the notes of ſome things which I hauehave (in your hearing) taught in publique: Being much deſired by many to commit to printing, that which God enabled mee very lately to deliuer, at the funerals of a worthy gentle-woman of theſe parts, I thought to inſcribe it vntounto your Ladie-ſhips name, as a pledge of my true deſire to further you (all I may) in your iourney towards Heauen. The matter is, of a woman, in the Scripture well reported of, both for her holy profeſsion, and for her gracious fruit, to whom the more like your Ladie-ſhip ſhall become, the better ſhall your aſſurance be of entring into reſt: I commend the Sermon to your reading, the perſon treated of to your Imitation, and your bodie and ſoule to the protection of the Almightie, my ſelfe remaining
Your Ladie-ſhips ready ſeruitor in any Chriſtian office SAM. HIERON.
Tabitha, or Dorcas of Ioppa, her
life: in which her
Profeſſion: A Diſciple
Fruit:
Generall full of
Good workes.
Almes.
Particular full of
Good workes.
Almes.
death: ſhe
was ſicke.
died.