The Revival of Grace, Title page – Publishers note 1
foreign. THE REVIVAL OF GRACE, IN THE Vigour and Fragrancy of it.
By a due Application of the Blood of Chriſt to the Root thereof. OR Sacramental Reflections on the Death of Chriſt a Sacrifice, a Teſtator, and bearing a Curſe for us; particularly applying each for the exciting and increaſing the Graces of the Believing Communicant.
By Henry Hurſt, M. A. formerly Fellow of Merton Colledge Oxon: Now Domeſtick Chaplain to the Right Honourable Arthur Earl of Angleſey, Lord Privy Seal.
—foreign, Gal. 2.20.
Domine! cum te in ara crucis ſuſpenſum video, quodcunque oculis meis ſpectandum objicitur, me in amerem tui inducat! Signum, Figura, Myſterium, vulneraque tui corporis, & prae caeteris, intimus ille affectus clamat ut ad Amorem tui properem, nec tui obliviſcar. Did. Stella meditat.
LONDON, Printed, and are to be ſold by Tho. Parkhurſt, at the Bible and Three Crowns, the lower End of Cheapſide, and the Bible under the Gate at Lond. Bridge. 1678
Imprimatur,
Guil. Jane. Jan: 9. 1677.
TO THE Right Honourable ARTHUR, Earl of Angleſey, Lord Privy Seal, &c.
May it pleaſe your Lordſhip,
THeſe Papers (which humbly offer themſelves to your favourable acceptance and Patronage) were conceived and formed, but laid aſide ſome years before you did me that great honour to command my attendance on you and your Family, ſince which time by unuſual accident, they have fallen into a hand kinder than my own, who judging them worth the publiſhing, and perſwading me to it, they claim a Right to this Honour of appearing in the world under your Lordſhip's Patronage; if I had refus'd to let them be made publick, perhaps I ſhould have been culpable; ſince they are thus publiſht, I am ſure (without omitting a part of my duty) I could not but tender them to Your Lordſhip, which I do with a ſenſe of their meanneſs and diſproportion which they bear to your Lordſhips Great Abilities, Learning and Judgment. Yet herein this will be ſomewhat of an Apology for me, though ſome have owned their obligations and duty to Your Lordſhip in Pieces leſs diſproportion'd, none have done it, or are likely to do it in a Piece equal to Your Lordſhip's Learning and meaſures of Judgment. The ſmall ſumms of chief Rents are too poor to be made a Preſent to any whoſe abundance would refuſe ſuch an Offer; but when tender'd as their Right, they give a kind acceptance and acquittance for few ſhillings or pence. In this humble offer I wave all pretence but this, That Your Lordſhip hath the beſt Right to any Publick Acknowledgment I can make of my obligations to You, of which I pray Your Lordſhip's favourable reſentment
From
Your Lordſhip's moſt Obedient Servant, and Domeſtick Chaplain, H. Hurſt.
To the Reader.
Reader,
THOU art preſented here with a Subject of which very many have treated, and of which perhaps it may be thought more need not have been ſpoken; and of which, what I have written, muſt now run the hazard of thy judgment or cenſure; if it profit and pleaſe thee, the thanks is due to me, but in Partnerſhip, with a Learned and Judicious Divine, who by an unthought of accident came to the knowledge of the two latter parts of what is here publiſht: ſomewhat alſo will be due to the Book-ſeller, who adventured the uncertainty of the Gain or Loſs, which will be more or leſs, as the Subject and Manner of handling it appears to the Peruſer. The good ſucceſs of thy Reading I commend to the Divine Benediction, which can make it contribute to the increaſe of thy Grace and Comfort: The Defects in Compoſing I ſubmit to thy Chriſtian Candour and Ingenuity which will cover them, and excuſe the Author. Thoſe miſtakes of the Printer which are moſt material, may be charged on him, and I with him will joyntly deſire they may be mended with a little labour beſtow'd on the places where the Errata's are marked. Finally, I pray no labour of mine in Writing, no labour of thine in Reading, may prove waſte of time to either of us in the day wherein we both muſt account for our ſelves unto the Lord, to whoſe Guidance and Bleſsing thou ſhalt be commended
By
From Angleſey-Houſe in Drury-Lane, April 10. 1678. The meaneſt Servant of the Beſt and Greateſt Lord, our Lord Jeſus Redeemer of Thee, and of thy Soul's Friend, H. Hurſt.
Advertiſement.
There is in the Preſs one Hundred Sermons on ſeveral ſelect Texts of Scripture, Preached by Tho. Horton, D. D. left perfected under his own hand.
THE REVIVAL OF GRACE.
LUKE 22.19.
foreign.
Do this in remembrance of me.