Sunbeams of Gospel Light, To the reader 3
❧ To the Anti-Arminian: OR, To every good Christian Reader.
Good Reader,
PLiny the great Naturalist, taxeth some of the Greeke, and Latin Writers in his Plin. Praefat. Hist. Natural.time, of folly at the least, for sending abroad their empty and worthlesse Pamphlets with an over-praise in the Title, promising much at the first sight, but utterly deceiving the Reader in his further search: But he that shal with judgment reade this Sermon, will finde somewhat more then a naked title to commend it. Sometimes the work-man graceth the worke: Sometimes the Worke the Worke-man; but behold in this Treatise they kisse each other, and are joyned together as a white Rose & a red Rose in one sweete Posie. But, that both have beene abused in the first Impression hereof, it appeareth as clearely (by the Manuscript) as the splendant Sun within Earths spangled Canopy: for a… those Passages, which will make the Arminians to stumble and (without doubt) to fall in some measure, are (by the Imprimatur-ist) deleted; as if Arminianisme D. W. 2 Leaves in some places.were Englands true Doctrine. But now for thy comfort (Dear Christian) thou hast the Author's Sermon as it was preached before King Iames, without the least diminution; And I sent it out with that prayer, or benediction that Iacob sent with his sonnes into Aegypt; God Almighty give thee mercy in the Gen. 3. 14.sight of the man: In the sight of the great man, that thou maist make him humble: Of the poore man, that thou maist make him content: Of the stubborne man, that thou maist hammer, and supple him: Of the penitent man, that thou maist bind up his wounds & sores. Of every ma… that thou maist touch his conscience, and wound his soule. Amen.
Thine in the Lord Iesus, P. B.