Coals from the Altar, Title page – Errata
COALES FROM THE ALTAR; OR, Foure religious TREATISES to kindle Deuotion in this colde AGE.
Written in French by Mounſieur du Moulin: And Tranſlated into Engliſh by N. M.
LONDON, Printed for Thomas Pauier, and are to be ſold at his ſhop in Iuie lane. 1623.
TO THE RIGHT Honourable, the Lady Elizabeth Norriſſe, the onelyonly Daughter and heire of the Right Honourable Francis, Earle of Berkeſhire, and Wife to the Right Worſhipfull Mr. Edward Wray, Eſquire.
MADAME,
SO great is my Obligation to your Honour; that your Honour may challenge the beſt ſeruices of my tongue, or pen, as due to your Ladiſhip for thoſe brighteſt beames of your bounty lately caſt vponupon me: whereby you hauehave comforted, and reuiued my languiſhing and drooping fortunes. The leſſe I am able to diſcharge ſo great a debt, the more I am bound to acknowledge it. Anaxagoras finding Perides very ready to make vſe of his learning in Philoſophy, but ſlow to contribute any thing to his maintenance, brake with him in the end after this manner: Sir, if you deſire to ſee by my light, you muſt miniſter oyle to my lampe. I muſt confeſſe, and I willingly profeſſe it (Right Noble and vertuous Lady) that you hauehave poured oyle into my Lampe in abundant meaſure; and therefore by Anaxagoras his Apophthegne, the light of my Lampe is yours by right. A Lampe that burneth dimly at the firſt kindling, yet afterwards yeeldeth a cleare and comfortable light; which putteth me in ſome good hope that my labours, how obſcure ſoeuer they are now, yet hereafter by more induſtry, and practiſe in this kinde, may ſerue not only to illuſtrate my Authors, but alſo your Ladyſhips name. For the preſent, I muſt intreate a fauourable glance of your Ladiſhips eye vponupon the worke I hauehave now aduentured to Tranſlate and Dedicate to your Honour. It conſiſteth of foure rare pieces, drawne by an excellent hand. The firſt preſenteth to your view the liuely image of a Chriſtians confidence in the word; the ſecond, of his deuotion at the Sacrament; the third, of his patience in aduerſitie; the fourth, of his watchfulneſſe in proſperity. All the parts and lineaments of theſe beautifull pictures, I hauehave entirely repreſented in my tranſlated draught: but our language did not alwayes afford mee colours anſwerable to my Authors: Which defect in them, if your Ladyſhip will diſpenſe with, I doubt not but that they will ſeeme very agreeable to your Honour, and not altogether vnworthy to be laid vp in your Ladyſhips rich Cabinet of ſpirituall rarities and diuine Treatiſes in this kinde, which you rightly value aboue all other precious things in the world: For, iewels and precious ſtones adorne but the body, theſe beautifie the minde, and repaire the image of God in the hidden man of the heart. The firſt of theſe will diſpoſe you to the diligent hearing of the Word; the ſecond will prepare you to the worthy receiuing of the Sacrament; The third wil offer you comfort in ſicknes and diſtreſſe; The fourth will giuegive you wholeſome counſell in proſperity. Before you goe to Sermon, to ſet an edge vponupon your ſpirituall appetite for the foode of your ſoule, I commend to your deuout meditations, the firſt of them, which diſcourſeth of the excellency of the Goſpell. When you are bid to the Lords Table, to take your Sauiour, with Simeon, into your hand, peruſe the ſecond Treatiſe, being wholly of that ſubiect. And if God at any time ſhake his rod ouer you, and you feare a fit of ſickneſſe, or any grieuous trouble and affliction, make vſe of the cordiall contained in the third Treatiſe. Laſtly, when you find your ſelfe dull and heauy in your deuotion, & in a manner lulled a ſleep by the ſweet enchantments of worldly comforts and delights, then take the ſiluer Larum-Bell in the fourth Treatiſe, into your hand, and ring it out to awake you. So ſhall your proſperity be ſecure, your affliction cheerefull, your receiuing the Sacrament moſt comfortable, and your hearing the Word moſt delightfull and fruitfull. Which he neuer ceaſeth to pray for, who remaines
Your Ladyſhips humbly deuoted, and perpetually obliged ſeruant, NICH. METCALFE.
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FINIS.
THE BOLDNESSE AND CONFIDENCE OF A Chriſtian.
In a SERMON, made by Mounſieur du Moulin, Miniſter of the Reformed Church at PARIS.
LONDON, Printed by T. S. for Thomas Pauier, and are to be ſold at his ſhop in Iuie lane. 1623.