The Content of a Wayfaring Man, Title page 1 – Dedication 1
THE CONTENT OF A WAYFARING MAN: AND THE ACCOMPT OF A MINISTERS REMOVALL.
TWO SERMONS.
The one preached at the Morning Lecture in the Citie of London; the other more enlarged in another Congregation.
BY J. F. M. A.
Nihil tibi aequè proficiet ad temperantiam omnium rerum, q.à.n frequens cogitatio brevis aevi & hujur incerti.
Hieron. ad H…liod.
foreign.
Chryſoſt. in 1 Tim. Hom. 17.
LONDON; Printed by Matthew Simmons. 1648.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, JOHN LORD ROBERTS, Baron of TRURO, All increaſe of laſting Honour and Felicity.
Right Honorable,
THis haſty undreſt Birth, being forced out of doores by the importunity of divers godly Miniſters and Friends, begges a covering from your Honours Name, whoſe merits are ſo well known unto the world in thoſe publick imployments to which you have been ingaged, as, if I ſhould attempt to adde any luſtre, I ſhould but light a Candle to the Sunne, and ſhadow that beauty which an abler penſill hath lately drawn.Maſter Samuel Bolton in his Epiſt. Dedic. to his Arraignment of Errour. I had not adventured upon the Acumen of your wiſdome and parts, for patronage of this infirm labour, had not your accuſtomed candor prompted me with afavourable excuſe of this honeſt ambitiion, partly from that wel-known love your Honour bears to learning & piety, partly from the cōſtant experience of your abundant favours, of which I deſire in this ſmal monument to perpetuate the acknowledgements, and partly from the ſubject of the firſt enſuing diſcourſe, which may be not unſuitable to your affection of a cōtemplative retirednes and a contentive ſweetnes in your ſelf-injoyments: your Honour not aſpiring great things for your ſelfe in Jacobs day of ſmall things, moſt nobly diſdaining to make your Morſels fat out of the publick wants, although your loſſes may be as great as ſome others.
Heroick Sir, I truſt neither of theſe Sermons will be unſavoury to your goodneſſe, though both unworthy your learning.
The firſt Sermon preſents you the felicity of an humble content and peaceable retiredneſſe, a Diſcourſe not unſeaſonable in times ſo full of trouble and uncertaintie as ours are.
The ſecond diſcovers the lawfull ends, and unkind provocations of a Miniſters removall, yeelding both an Apologie for the Miniſter, and an Alarm to the people whatſoever they are. Hope, which is the Mother of Boldneſſe, and Miſtreſſe of Endeavour, hath brought them unto your hands, to do ſome ſervice to the Church of God, and to your Honour, wherein if they ſhall … ſo happy, it will both Comfort and Crowne him who is ſervant to both
In all Goſpel duties intirely obliged, JOHN FATHERS.