Sermon 18 February 1620, Title page – Dedication
A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE COMMOS-HOVSE Of Parliament, in Saint Margarets Church at Westminster, the 18. of February. 1620.
By IAMES VSSHER. Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Dublin, in Ireland.
LONDON Printed by I. D. for Iohn Bartlett, and are to be sould at the golden Cup in the Goldsmiths Rowe in Cheapside. 1624.
TO THE HONOVRABLE ASSEMBLY of the Commons House of Parliament.
IT pleased this Honourable Assembly to require my seruice, in preaching at that late religious meeting of yours, for the receiuing of the holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper. I was afterward also sent vntounto by the like authority, to publish that which (according to my poore ability) I then deliuered. And although in respect of my selfe, and of my want of time to prosecute such a subiect, I could wish I had beene spared from such a taske: yet rather then the expectation, and expresse signification of the desire of the representatiue body of the whole Comminalty of the Kingdome should rest vnsatisfied; I hauehave yeelded to commit this vntounto the disposing and direction of them, for whose sakes it was at first vndertaken. Opprimi enim me onere officij malui, quàm id,Cic quod mihi cum fide semel impositum fuit, propter infirmitatem animi deponere. The very words which then I vttered, I am not able to present vntounto you: the substance of the matter I hauehave truly laid downe, though in some places (as it fell out) somewhat contracted, in others a little more inlarged. Whatsoeuer it is, I wholly submit it vntounto your graue censures: and so beseeching the Lord to giuegive you prosperous successe in all your worthy indeuours for the seruice of God, his Maiesty and your Countrey, I rest
Yours in all Christian duty to be commanded, IAMES VSSHER.