A Pastors Love Expressed to a Loving People, Title page – To the reader
A PASTORS LOVE Expressed to a Loving People In a Farwel SERMON PREACHED At Stephens VValbrook, London. August 17. 1662.
By Mr. THO. VVATSON.
Acts 20. 38.
Sorrowing most of all for the words that he spake, that they should see his face no more.
LONDON, Printed in the Year, 1662.
To the Reader.
Christian Reader,
HEre is presented to thy view, the last Sermon of Mr. Thomas Watson that he Preached to his loving and beloved people of Stephens Walbrook: the Reverend Author having no knowledge of its publication, I hope will be sufficient Apologie for the Disparity that is in it from his other VVorks, it being not published by the same pen, nor adorned with Marginal Quotations sutable to his other Sermons, thou canst not but know there is great difference between preparing Sermons for the Pulpit, and for the Press, the wisest Master Builder sees it sometime expedient to beat often upon one and the same truth, that they may nayl them not onelyonly to the ears. but the hearts of their Auditors, and therefore wonder not if thou meetest with any thing that may look like a Tautology, since I would rather be guilty of that then to take my own judgment for leaving out any thing delivered, I should be sorry, if the publication of this Sermon, which was intended for the satisfaction of all, should prove to the dissatisfaction of any, however I hope thou wilt be so candid to lay any fault in Printing or the like at the publishers door, not at the Preachers. I have but one request more, and that is, that the Reader would propound as honestends to himself, in reading it, as I did in transcribing of it, in so doing I shall be satisfied, and he will be edified,
Thy Friend and Servant. R. M.