Mixture of Scholastical Divinity with Practical Part 2, Dedication 4
To his Honoured Friends, The RIGHT WORSHIPFULL Sr WILLIAM WYNDHAM Of Orchard VVyndham Baronet.
THE WORSHIPFULL
Esquires.
FRANCIS LuTTRELL of Dunstar Castle.
GEORGE TREVELYAN of Nettlecomb.
CHARLES STEYNINGS of Holnicote.
Gentlemen,
I Have joined you together in this Dedication, to publish your Conjunction in a very laudable, and Charitable action, The giving of a plentifull Exhibition for the maintenance of a poore youth, Student in the University of Oxon; A rare Example in these daies in Gentlemen, of whom how few can the greatest importunity winne to spare any thing from their superfluities for so good an use? But your Liberality was so forward, as that it needed no spurre, nor Excitation, only it called for direction unto a meet object. That this should be published in Print, was a thing, I believe, you never desired, nor expected: But though you doe not expect the praises of men, as being acted by a higher principle; yet you may lawfully accept them; provided, as Theseus dedicated unto Hercules the Temples that were built in his own honour, so you doe not suffer these praises to be terminated in your selves; but carry them further, and higher unto that God, who hath given you hearts and estates for such a worke. There remaines yet one thing to be done, and that is, that we all, you, and I, joine in sincere and unfeigned prayers unto God for his blessing upon the studies of him, unto whom you have shewn such Munificence; for though you water this plant, 'tis God alone can give the increase; Unto this God I commend you and yours, and rest
Yours to be Commanded in the things of Christ HENRY JEANES.