Two Sermons, Half title – Dedication 1
Fullers Comment on Ruth; with two Sermons on speciall occasions.
TWO Sermons:
The first, COMFORT IN CALAMITIE, teaching to Live well.
The other, THE GRAND ASSIZES, minding to Dye well.
BY THOMAS FULLER, B. D.
LONDON, Printed for G. and H Eversden, and are to be sold at the Sign of the Greyhound in Pauls Chur…h-yard. 1654.
TO The Right Worshipfull, and deservedly Honoured, the Lady ELIZABETH NEWTON, of CHARLETON in KENT.
MADAME,
SAint Paul in the first to the Thessalonians, chap. 2. vers. 18. saith unto them, I would have come unto you once and again…, but Satan hindred us. I may make use of the former part of his Expression, applying it to my frequent Intentions to visit the Place of your Abode, and bestow some Spirituall paines therein.
But I must not play Satan with Satan, be a false Accuser, to charge on him the frustrating of my Design, (though generally he be a Back-Friend to all good Desires) but must justly impute it to my owne manifold avocations.
May your Ladyship now be pleased to see what you expected to heare, and reade what I intended to speake. The first of these Sermons was designed for your Fore-Noones, the latter for your After-Noones Repast.
I am confident you will not measure my respect to you to be the lesse, because the benefit to others may be the greater by publishing thereof; and request you to accept hereof, not as intende… a full payment for my many Obligations unto you, but as tendered in consideration of your forbearance, till I am enabled to expresse my Gratitude in a greater proportion.
The Lord blesse you in your Selfe, dayly sanctifying your rare naturall Endowments with his choisest Graces; blesse you in your Sel…e divided, your Worthy Husband; in your Selfe multiplyed, your hopefull Sonne; and slowly, but surely, terminate your Prosperitie here with endlesse happinesse hereafter: The heartie desire of
Your Ladyships boundant Orator, THOMAS FULLER.