Sermon 17 November 1599, Dedication – Errata
REVERENDO IN CHRISTO PAtri RICHARDO BANCROFTO, Epiſcopo Londinenſi.
IAcobus Huſſaeus Artium Magiſter, & Academiae nostra a libe… lis, (Reverende in Chriſto Paeter) literaituas ad me dedit. 13. Calend. Octob. perſcriptas & …igillo tuo obſignat…. Ex his intellexite pro tuo ſancto ergeme amore a m… po…re, v… 19. Cal.17. Novem. Decem. quae proximè accedent in ſuggeſto Paulino Londini concionem ſacram habea. Quo die per ſingular huius regni Eccleſias anniverſariae deprecationes, preces, poſtulationes, gratiarum actiones fier… ſolent, pro ſalute & in columitate ſereniſſimae noſtrae Reginae, quā eodem die quadrageſimo primo antè anno Deus Opt. Max. pro ſua infinita erga Angliam nostram miſericordia, ad imperiale huius regni Diadema foeliciter extulit. Huic tuae poſtulationi libenter acquieſco, fretus Dei auxilio, quo mihi propitio, tempore in literis conſt… tuto, statuo Londinū adventare, ne deſim officio, quod tua incredibilis erga me benevolētia mihi impoſuerit. Et licet plus oneris in me ſuſceperim conceſſione hac, quàm ferre me poſſe intelligo; & hoc concionis genus adeò ſacrum, adeò ſolenne, aliquibus ex his qui patres ſunt Eccleſiae noſtrae meliùs conveniret, quorum oratio robuſta eſt ad perſuadendum propter authoritatem, ſuavis ad permulcendum hominum animos propter eruditionem, valida ad perfringendos impiorum con… tus propter gravitatem, magis apta ad Demonſtrati…ū dicendi genus propter ſummam eloquentiam potens ad divinas laudes praedicandas propter ſummam in ſacris literis cognitionem, aſsidua… in concionando experientiam, & rara ſpiritus ſancti dona: Cum tua tamen dignitas hoc dicendi officium fidei meae commiſerit, …t divina mihi bonit as affulgeat, ei deeſſe nolo, mihi conſcius turpe admodum eſſe, & Profeſſore in Thelogiae Regio & Academico prorſus indignum, tale officium aut propter ignaviam negligere, vel propter animi infirmitatem praetermitters: Faxit Deus vt labor meus in hoc dicendi genere tua ſatiſfaciat expectationi, ſerviat adificationi Eccleſia, Dei Opt. Max. gloriae. Etiam at que etiam vale. Oxoniae, è Collegio Exon. Calend. Octob. 1599.
Dignitati tuae in Chriſto devinctiſſimus THOMAS HOLLAND ſacrae Theogiae Profeſſor Regius.
FAVLTES ESCAPED, AND certaine obſervations.
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Other faultes eſcaped by over-much haſtening both to, and in the Printing, I deſire thee (gentle Reader) to amend with thy pen, as thou ſeeſt cauſe.