The Right Foundation of Quietness Obedience and Concord, Title page – Dedication
THE RIGHT FOUNDATION OF Quietness, Obedience, and Concord Discovered in Two Seasonable Discourses, SHEWING,
1. The folly of Man's Devices.
2. The stability of God's Counsel.
3. The mischief of Strife and Vain-glory
4. The practice of true Humility.
By Clem. Elis, A. M. Rector of Kirkby in Nottinghamshire, Author of the Gentile Sinner.
LONDON, Printed for Iohn Baker, at the Three Pidgeons in St. Paul's Church-yard, MDCLXXXIV.
To his Grace HENRY Ld Duke of Newcastle,
Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire, and Privy-Counsellor to His most Sacred Majesty.
May it Please your Grace,
WIthout any Apology, either for my weakness, too apparent in this Performance, or for my boldness in the Dedication; I here in all humility beseech your Grace to accept of this very slender Present; tho' it can signifie no more, but only this, that I acknowledge a duty incumbent upon me, and (tho' I shall never be able to make full payment) I am very desirous to do all that I can towards the discharging of it.
In these little things which I have the confidence to call Two seasonable Discourses, I have endeavour'd to do some part of that great Duty, which I owe both to God and the King, both to Church and State, and particularly, to that Congregation wherein, under your Grace's noble Patronage, I am set to exercise the Ministry committed to me.
It cannot therefore, I hope, look like a Presumption, to give your Grace this account, how your Tenants are instructed by me in their great Duties of Religion and Loyalty. And if in that which is here humbly offered to your Grace's eye, any Satisfaction be given in that particular, I must account it reason enough why I thus expose my Infirmities to the view and Censure of the World; and also why I despair not of a Pardon, if it make so bold with your Grace, as to tell the World, wherever it comes, that it is but the smallest part of that great Debt and Duty which is owing by
My Lord, Your Grace's most Humble and Obedient Servant. Cl. Elis.