The Pilgrims Profession, Title page – Dedication
THE PILGRIMS PROFESSION.
OR A SERMON PREAChed at the Funerall of Mris MARY GVNTER by Mr THOMAS TAYLOR.
To which (by his consent) also is added, A short Relation of the life and death of the said Gentle-woman, as a perpetuall Monument of her graces and vertues.
Omnis peregrina regio patria est corum, Et omnis patria corum est peregrina.
Iustin Martir epist. ad Diognetum.
LONDON Printed by I. D. for Io: Bartlet, and are to be sold at his Shop in Cheap-side, at the gilt Cup in the Goldsmiths Row.
1622.
ERRATA.
PAge 18. Marg: read nulla. p. 57. r. foreign. Pag. 125. line vlt. r. But descended of. p. 140. l. 15. r. waues.
TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE The Lady LETTICE, Countesse of Leicester, All encrease of Honour and Happines.
MADAM;
HAving importuned and prevailed with that Reverend Preacher, who performed that last office for your LADISHIPS late Servant, to afford me a perfect Coppie of his Sermon, (which for the fitnes and worthinesse of the matter, I thought much pittie to be buryed with her) and purposing to adde a short Relation of the happie Life and Death of my deare Wife, both which I thought were very exemplary; I emboldned my selfe, to present the same to your HONOVR, not only as a thankfull testification, of my humble dutie and service, for all those gracious endowments, which I so happily enioyed in her, (of all which, vnderunder God, your HONOVR was a chiefe instrument) but also because I know that your HONOVR, who gladly apprehended all the meanes of her comfort through her life, would as gladly receiue the true Narration of her assured Comforts and Conquest in her so Christian death and dissolution.
Neither is the Ser…on vnfit for your HONOVRS perv…all, whom God hath honored with …o many dayes, and …eares; and taught …ot to feare eyther …he end of your Pilgrimage out of this strange Countrey, …or the neare approch to your own …ome.
Thus humbly pray…ng your HONORS acceptance of tha… which is most properly yours. I pra… the Father of me… cies, to adde to a… your noble Vertue… the continuance o… your true prosper… tie.
Your HONOVRS in all humble service H. G.