A Good Day Well Improved, Title page – Dedication
A GOOD DAY VVell Improved, OR FIVE SERMONS
Upon Acts 9. 31. Two of which were Preached at Pauls, and Ordered to be Printed.
To which is annexed a Sermon on 2 Tim. 1. 13. Preached at St. Maries in Cambridge, on the Commencement Sabbath, June 30. 1650.
By ANTHONY TUCKNEY D. D. and Maſter of St Johns College in Cambridge.
The land had reſt, and he had no war in thoſe years, becauſe the Lord had given him reſt: Therefore he ſaid unto Judah, Let us build, &c. So they built and proſpered. 2 Chron. 14. 6, 7.
LONDON: Printed by J. F. for I. Rothwell, 1656.
To the Right Honorable Sr CHRISTOPHER PACK Knight, Lord Major, together with the Honourable Court of Aldermen of the Famous City of LONDON.
Ever Honored,
THe ordinary excuſe which many uſually make for publiſhing their Writings; by laying the fault upon the importunity of friends, is grown ſo threed-bare, that it is now almoſt paſt wearing; and yet ſuch is my poverty, that I have nothing elſe wherewith to cover my nakedneſs in the putting forth of this poor piece now preſented to you. It containes a few Sermons, all firſt preached in the Univerſitie, but two of them afterwards at Pauls, before You and the reſt of that Honorable Audience, which by the Order of your Court, ſent to me, I was deſired to Print; how unwillingly I beſt know, who ſhould beſt know my own weakneſſe, and what courſe I took to avoid it, My Lord, you can very wel witneſs. But ſeeing by your Honours Command, they muſt come forth, be pleaſed to underſtand that He who hath Naomies field muſt Ruth. 4. 5.have Ruth alſo. Thoſe two, which you are pleaſed to call for, had their Fellows, which they cannot part with: And therefore, as when Gehazi asked one talent of Naaman, he bad him 1 King. 5. 22, 23.be content, and take two; So when you ask but for two, I am more liberall, and deſire you to be content to take five or ſix: not to patronize the Truth in them; that is Gods, which He will own and maintain; but to expreſſe the ſenſe of thoſe obligations which your Honour hath by many favours laid upon me, which have forcibly drawn me to this, from which otherwiſe I had a very great averſation: and if by the bleſſing of God hereby any further ſervice may be done to him or his Church, it will be the rejoicing of
Your ſervant in the Work of the Goſpel ANTHONY TUCKNEY. Cambridge Oct. 10. 1655.