Meroz Cursed 23 February 1641, Title page – Dedication
MEROZ Cursed, OR, A SERMON PREACHED To the Honourable House OF COMMONS, At their late Solemn FAST, Febr. 23. 1641 By STEPHEN MARSHALL, B. D. Minister of Finchingfitld in Essex. Published by order of that House.
PSALM. 122. Vers. 6, & 9.
Pray for the peace of Ierusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
Because of the House of the Lord our God, I will seek thy good.
LONDON, Printed by R. BADGER, for Samuel Gellibrand, at the Brasen Serpent in St. Pauls Church yard. 1641.
TO THE Honourable HOUSE of COMMONS. Now ASSEMBLED in PARLIAMENT.
IT is fit my obedience should last as long as your commands, for so I have alwayes interpreted your Requests and desires to be. As I never had the confidence to present you with any thing properly mine, so neither will I bee guilty of that Injustice, as to deny you any thing so truly your own, as is this fruit of my poore yet willing endeavours. It is yours truly, but most principally the Churches, whose both you, and I, and all that you can doe, or I speak, are. If it may be serviceable to you, and you by it made more serviceable to the Church and cause of God, I have my option. But I am resolved not to make that use of my experience of your patience in hearing the Sermon, as to try it further with the length of a Dedication: Only I thinke it my dutie to second my proposition with my prayers, That God would vouchsafe a blessing to your endeavours for his Church, and to you for your endeavours. These shall be the constant and earnest desires of
Your Servant Stephen Marshall.