A Heart-Melting Exhortation, Postscript
A POSTSCRIPT TO THE READER.
UNderstand dear Friends and Countreymen, and any to whom this ensuing Letter may be presented, that the Authours who writ the same, did intend it only as a small Remembrance of that Christian love that ought to flow and abound in all that are members of that misticall body, according to that Heb. 3.13. so especially it ought to manifest it self betwixt Ministers and people; and though these Friends that now write are so distant that they cannot speak to those to whom they write, as sometime they have done, yet they cannot forget those bowels of love as here is expressed and once did more fully declare to be in them when they dwelt among you; and though it come so late to your hands, the reason was, the place being so remote, and the way of conveyance so difficult, being it was intended to be Printed that so the more might enjoy it: The Presse at that time being full of other imployment (which was in the Year 1645.) it was cast by so long, that at last the Authours thought it out of season, and so sent for it home again to N. E. till now this Year, some Friends understanding and seeing o… it, encouraged the Authours to put it forth still, which they (willing to shew their love to their Countreymen) condescended unto: And therefore let it not seem to thee as an Almanack out of date, but well weigh and consider it, and what thou findest in it that concerns thee in any kinde, make use of it to the glory of God and thine own good, for that is it which the Authours wish and desire, as their preachings formerly, and Letters now expresse, that the Name of God may be glorified in you, and you in him.
FINIS.
End of the text · Richard Mather, A Heart-Melting Exhortation (1650)