The Watchmans Watchword, Title page – Dedication
THE WATCHMANS WATCHWORD. A Sermon preached at White-Hall upon the 30 of March laſt, being the fifth Wedneſday in Lent, and the day of the monethly Faſt:
By RICHARD LOVE D.D. Master of Corpus Chriſti Colledge in Cambridge, and Chaplain in ordinary to his Majeſtie.
Publiſhed by command.
EZEK. 33.6.
If the Watchman ſee the ſword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned: if the ſword come and take any perſon from among them, he is taken away in his iniquitie: but his bloud will I require at the Watchmans hand.
Printed by ROGER DANIEL Printer to the Univerſitie of Cambridge. 1642.
¶ To the Right Honourable ROBERT Earl of Eſſex, Viſcount of Hereford, &c. And To the Right Honourable HENRY Earl of Holland, Knight of the moſt noble Order of the Garter, and Chancellour of the Univerſitie of CAMBRIDGE.
My Lords,
BY the command of the one of your Lordſhips, I was ſummoned to this performance; and under the command of the other, I prepared it at my ſtation in Cambridge; and now at the command of both, I publiſh it to the world. Your Lordſhipse having thus had a joynt influence into this poor, birth, pardon my boldneſſe if I intitle it to you both: that what worth it wanteth in it ſelf, it may borow from the lustre of two ſuch names. God and Nature have united your Honours in conſanguinity and affection; which makes me preſume the more to unite you here. Though to deal ingenuouſly, in this caſe I rather crave your noble Teſtimonie, then Patronage: It being best known unto your Lordſhips, that this Edition is rather an act of my obedience, then choice. I know my ſelf too well to think that any thing of mine is worthy to be tranſmitted to an other age: And no heart grieves more then mine, to ſee the boldneſſe of the daring Preſſe. Yet if any spark of pietie hath been kindled in any breast by my meditations, I beſeech the God of heaven to cheriſh it. To that Almighty Goodneſſe I betake your Honours, and reſt
Your Lordſhips moſt humble and obedient ſervant in the Lord, RICHARD LOVE.