Practical Discourses Volume 2, Frontispiece – Dedication
Johannes Scott S. T. P.
PRACTICAL DISCOURSES Concerning OBEDIENCE, AND THE Love of God.
Vol. II.
By IOHN SCOTT, D. D. late Rector of St. Giles's in the Fields.
LONDON: Printed for W. Kettilby at the Bishop's Head in St. Paul's Church-yard; and S. Manship at the Ship near the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill, MDCXCVIII.
To the Right Honorable DANIEL, Earl of Nottingham.
MY LORD,
I Am very sensible, that you are the known Favourer of Men of eminent Worth and Learning; I only take this Opportunity of acquainting the World, that You were so, of the Author of these following Discourses, that so you may receive in larger Measures those Tributes which are due to Publick Benefactors, the Prayers and Praises of Mankind; For they who have, or shall be bettered by This great Author's Works, are oblig'd in a peculiar Manner to remember that Right Honourable Person, who by his Countenance did not only encourage him to be serviceable, but did really endeavour to render him more useful to us, by procuring for him a little Recess from the Toil and Labours of his weighty Employment: Had this succeeded, in all Humane Probability he had lived longer, and then we should have seen that truly Pious and most sublime Design he intended to pursue; and should have been well acquainted with that uncultivated part of Religion, The Duties of Piety towards God: And perhaps by Them, we should have given a guess at the Praises and Hallelujahs of those blest Beings above, when they had been managed with that Strength of Eloquence, that Fervour of Spirit, pois'd and temper'd with such a Judgment as his. But he is gone to bear a part in the Heavenly Choir, where (if he knows what is done here below) it will be a pleasing Prospect to my dear departed Friend, to see Your Lordship and your Noble Family, the Possessors and design'd Heirs of the Honours of both Worlds. I am,
My Lord, Your Lordships most Humble and most devoted Servant, HUMPHREY ZOUCH.