Sermon 28 June 1660, Title page – Dedication
HOSANNAH: A Thanksgiving-Sermon, JƲNE 28th. 1660.
By J. M. Presb. Anglic.
foreign. S. Ignat. Ep. ad Philad.
ACADEMIA OXONIĒSIS
OXFORD, Printed by H. Hall, for Rich. Davis, 1660.
TO THE Right Reverend Father in GOD, BRIAN LORD BISHOP of SARƲM.
Right Reverend Father in God,
IT was once the complaint of the Sons of the Prophets, that the place wherein they dwelt was too ſtreight for them. The Prophets of the Church of England have for divers years, like a kind of foreign, had room enough to wander about in, though little enough to dwel in. Yet I beleive they never miſs'd their houſes ſo much as they did their Pulpits on the 28th. … June. This made me take the Preſſe for my Pulpit, and (by a very eaſie converſion) my Readers for my Auditors: for my Lord, if we ſhould hold our peace, the ſtones would immediately cry out.
I preſent this Sermon to your Lordſhip, not for any confidence I have of the worth of it (for I know my own ſize well enough) but to account with your Lordſhip for the duty I owe you, as your Curate of Soules. I have this then to adde to the greatning of your joy in the day of Recompences, that as I have, by the grace of God, through all the intrigues of the late Julian dayes, faithfully kept your depoſitum down to theſe very times of the Reſtitution of all things, ſo was it the good pleaſure of God to pitch upon that little flock, for ſuch Sacrifices as were ready to be offered up for the teſtimony of a good conſcience.
My Lord, the inſolence of this addreſs, will hereafter receive an alloy, even in your Lordſhips own judgement, when you ſhall be inform'd of your Lordſhips more individuall concernments upon this Author, who is,
My Lord, Your Lordſhips moſt humble, and o… …t Servant, IO. MARTIN.