A Sermon Preached 6 January 1660, Title page – Imprimatur
A SERMON PREACHED In St. Peter's Westminster on Sunday Jan. 6. 1660. at the Consecration of the Right Reverend Fathers in God,
GILBERT Lord Bishop of Bristoll,
EDWARD Lord Bishop of Norwich,
NICHOLAS Lord Bishop of Hereford,
WILLIAM Lord Bishop of Glocester.
BY RICHARD ALLESTRY D. D. Canon of Christ Church in Oxford, and one of his Majesties Chaplains.
LONDON, Printed for Jo. Mar… Allestry, and Tho. Dicas, at the Bell in Saint … Church-yard 1660.
TO THE Right Reverend Father in GOD, GILBERT LORD Bishop of LONDON, and Deane of His Majesties Chappell Royall.
My Lord,
WHEN I consider with what reluctancies I appear thus in publick; I have all reason to suspect and fear, least this offering, which like an unwilling Sacrifice was dragg'd to the Altar, and which hath great defects too, will be farre from propitiating either for its self or for the votary. But I must crave leave to adde, that how averse soever I was to the publishing this rude Discourse, I make the Dedication with all possible zeal, and ready cheerfulness. For I exspect your Lordship to be a Patron not onelyonly to my Sermon, but to my Subject. Such a separate eminence of virtue and of sweetness mixt together may hope to ingratiate Your Function to a Generation of men that will not yet know their own good, but resist mercy, and are not content to be happy. And for my self, Your Lordships great goodness and obligingness hath encourag'd me, not onelyonly to hope that You will pardon all the miscarriages of what I now present, but also to presume to shelter it and my self under your Lordships Name and Command, and to honour my self before the world by this address, and by assuming the relation of.
My Lord, Your Lordships most humbly devoted and most faithfull Servant, RICH. ALLESTRY.
Imprimatur.
Geo. Stradling, Reverendi in Christo Patris Gilberti Episcopi Londinensis Sacellanus domesticus.
Ex Aedibus Sabaudianis, Feb. 2. Anno Salutis 1660.