A Collection of Sermons Upon Jonah, Title page 1 – Dedication
A COLLECTION OF SERMONS.
1. The best Employment.
2. A Gift for God alone.
3. The true Penitent.
4. The beſt Act of Oblivion.
Together with NOTES upon JONAH.
By Thomas Fuller.
Mat. 13. 52.
An houſholder bringeth forth out of his treaſure things new and old.
LONDON, Printed for John Stafford, and are to be ſold at the ſign of the George neer Fleet-bridge. 1656.
THE BEST EMPLOYMENT.
Mat. 15. 30.
And great multitudes came unto him, having with them thoſe that were lame, blinde, dumb, maimed, and many others, and caſt them down at Jeſus feet, and he healed them.
By Thomas Fuller.
LONDON, Printed for Iohn Stafford in George-yard neer Fleet-bridge. 1656.
To my worthy friends of S. Bridgets (commonly Brides) Pariſh in London. The Bleſſings of this and a better life.
JAcob, when ſending his Son into Aegypt, adviſed them to carry*Gen. 43. v. 11. to the Governour thereof, (their unknown Brother) a Preſent, a little balme, and a little honey, ſpices, and myrrhe, nutts, and almonds. Herein both the quality and quantity of the guift is conſiderable:
The Quality: alas! look on them in themſelves, and they were but mean. Aegypt (to give it it's due) excelled Palestine in many Commodities which were better to barter with forraigne Nations, as wicked men in all Ages ſurpaſſe the ſervants of GOD in outward accommodations.
The Quantity, but a little of each. To carry much would have been but the more burthen to their Cattle which carried it, and perchance leſſe acceptable to him that received it.
However, one thing much commended this preſent, becauſe (as the Text ſaith) they were the beſt fruits of the Land; and no rationall perſon can expect better than what is beſt. Some conformity there is betwixt their Preſent, & this my Dedication; none is more ſenſible than my ſelf of the meanneſſe thereof: Beſides Zoar, is it not a little one? yet is it the beſt that my barren condition can for the preſent afford, on which account I comfortably preſume it will be as kindly taken as it is cordially tendred.
All I will adde is this; The Holy Spirit compareth good Councell*Eccleſ. 12. v. 11. nailes faſtned. In proſecution of which Metaphor, I hope that theſe nailes which were entred into your hearts at the preaching of them, ſhal now be rivetted into them by the printing thereof; which is the hearty deſire of
Your ſervant in Jeſus Chriſt, THO: FULLER.