Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Creed, Title page – Dedication
MEDITATIONS AND Diſquiſitions UPON THE CREED.
BY Sr. RICHARD BAKER Knight.
LONDON, Printed by IOHN DAVVSON, for Francis Eglesſield at the Marigold in Pauls Church-yard, 1646.
TO THE GENEROVS, and worthy of much honour, THOMAS BAKER of FREZINGFIELD, in the County of Suffolke, ESQVIRE.
Moſt honoured Coſin:
IT is not the propinquity of bloud that is between us; It is not the great Obligation, in which I ſtand bound unto you; which yet, were cauſes of themſelves ſufficient: but it is the generouſneſſe of your minde, that make me deſirous, to conſecrate ſomething t… the memory of your Name; for thoug… your owne vertue will preſerve it ſufficiently, yet my affection is not ſatisfied without bearing a part in it: that being my ſelfe but a whithered bough; may expreſſe my joy, in ſo flouriſhing branch of our Family, as your ſelfe is▪ And now, I know not whether I ma… account you young, in regard of your fer yeares: or Old, in regard of your muc… experience: having ſpent Twelve year together, (a longer time then Vlyſſes in travelling over the moſt flouriſhing parts of Chriſtendome; where having ſpent your time, in ſo noble … manner as Report delivers; you cannot chuſe but be returned home, Vir pau… corum hominum; more compleat in good parts, then to have man Peeres. But to leave this foreign Having heretofore written Meditations upon the Lords Prayer: J have now adventured to doe the like upon the Creede; which Treatiſe, as J Dedicate to your Name; ſo my ſelfe, to your Service; and remaine
Devoted to you, in all true Love and Affection, Richard Baker.