The Works of Heaven Upon Earth, Title page – Imprimatur
THE VVORKS OF Heaven upon Earth: OR The Eccellencie of Praiſe and Thankſgiving, in part diſplayed IN A Sermon, inlarged into a Treatiſe, Preached at Taunton in the County of Somerſet May 11. 1648. Being the day ſet apart for the Annuall Commemoration of the Deliverance of that Town, by the Reliefe which they received on May 11. Anno 1645.
By HENRY JEANES Miniſter of Gods Word at Chedzoy in the ſame County.
Pſal. 102.18.
This ſhall be written for the Generation to come, and the People which ſhall be created ſhall praiſe the Lord.
LONDON, Printed by G. D. for Francis Eglesfield at the Marigold in Pauls Church-yard, and are to be ſold by George Treagle in Taunton. 1649.
TO THE Right VVorſhipfull ROGER HILL late Major, the COMMONCOUNSELL with all other the wel-affected Inhabitants of the Town of TAVNTON.
WHEN I was prevailed with for the preaching of this Sermon, I was ſo far from having the leaſt thoughts of making it publicke, as that I did not ſo much as ſuſpect, or feare an invitation thereunto. And when I received intimation that it would be expected from me, I yet fully reſolved to reſiſt the utmoſt violence of importunity; and I had done ſo (although as it is ſaid of Eliſha, 2 Kings 2.17. I was urged till I was aſhamed) but that it was objected to me, That this my deniall was unſutable to my Sermon: for the ſcope of that was to quicken unto the love and practiſe of Thankeſgiving; in the preſſing of which, if I were ſerious & in earneſt, how could I with hold that which you deſired onelyonly as a teſtimony and help of your thankfulneſſe; If thankſgiving vvere ſo excellent and divine a duty, vvhy vvould I not (having a Call from ſuch as I acknovvledged godly and judicious) further it by my pen as vvell as tongue? This argument I confeſſe won upon me, and hath drawn from me more then a conformity to your deſires; for that vvhichwhich vvas but a Sermon, I have enlarged into a Treatiſe. If God ſhall honour and bleſſe it ſo far as to make it inſtrumentall in ſtirring you up unto a zealous and ſincere practiſe of this glorious and heavenly duty of thankſgiving, I have my end. But now if it ſhould meet with a contrary iſſue, if you ſhould be unmoved thereby, and not vvithſtanding it, remaine unthankfull, or elſe cold and remiſſe in your thankes, the griefe vvill bee mine, but the danger yours. For this ſmall Tractate vvill bee one vvitneſſe and aggravation of your unthankfulneſſe, Iohn 12.48. And beſides, ſuch an entertainment of it, vvill bee very unagreeable to the argument by which you perſwaded me; nay, it will argue that your obſtinate earneſtneſſe for the publication hereof, proceeded rather from curioſity and vainglory, then from a religigious deſire to be quickned unto, and aſſiſted in your praiſes. But to uſe the expreſſion of the Apoſtle, Heb. 6.9. I am perſwaded better things of you, and things that accompany ſaluation, that are anſwerable to ſuch a ſaluation as this of yours. In confidence of, and prayer for which, Ireſt,
Yours to ſerve you in the things of Chriſt, HENRIE IEANES.
Gentle Reader, I deſire thee to amend with thy pen, theſe groſſeſt eſcapes of the Printer: for they are ſuch as ſpoyle the ſenſe. As for others, I leave to thine own correction.
PAg. 9. line 7. for univerſall read unuſuall. line laſt, blot out the ſecond it. marg. for Morteni r. Mortoni. p. 11. marg. for Pala r. Rada. p. 12. l. …. blot out …. p. 13. marg. for ldas r. laudas. for ldare r. laudare. for deſi r. deſinis. p. 16. l. 3. blot out and. p. 22. l. 7. for ordering r. bordering. l. 8.9. for cognitionem r. cognationem. p. 24. marg. for foreign r. foreign. p. 26. l. …9. for 87. r. 37. p. 2…. l. 17. for Phil. 2.29. r. Phil. 1.29. p. 29. l. 8. for intention r. intenſion. p. 31. l. 2. for he r. ſhe. l. laſt, for part r. paſt. p. 35. l. 29. adde Acts 20.35. p. 38. l. 9. for peaceleſſe r. peerleſſe. p. 41. l. 7. for undeniable r. undeniably. p. 42. l. 32. for operation r. oppoſition. p. 43. l. 30. for ignorance r. ignorant. l. 21. for forgetfulneſſe r. forgetfull. p. 44. l. 12. for many r. in any. p. 48. l. 29. for mallet r. malis. p. 54. l. 18. adde of after the firſt love, and blot out the ſecond love. p. 56. l. r. for love r. law. p. 65. l. 8. for diſpoſe r. diſpoſſeſſe. p. 73. l. 29. for incoation r. inchoation. p. 74. l. 24. for not r. our. p. 75. l. 30. for intenſive r. extenſive. p. 72. l. 4. for deſire r. deterre, as alſo another, p. 75. l. 3. for more r. moſt.
Imprimatur, IOHN DOWNHAM. Decemb. 4. 1648.