The Obligation of Human Conscience, Bookplate – Dedication
NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT
SERO SED SERIO
The Moſt Honble. William Marquiſs of Lothian
TEN Lectures ON THE OBLIGATION OF Humane Conſcience.
READ In the Divinity School at OXFORD, In the Year, 1647,
By that moſt Learned and Reverend Father in God, Doctor Robert Sanderſon, Biſhop of Lincoln. &c.
Tranſlated by Robert Codrington, Maſter of Arts.
LONDON, Printed by Tho. Leach▪ and are to be ſold by John Martin, James Al…stry, and Tho. Dicas, at the S…gn of the Bell in St. P…uls-Church Y…rd, 1660.
SEVERAL CASES OF CONSCIENCE Diſcuſſed In Ten Lectures IN THE DIVINITY SCHOOL AT OXFORD.
By that moſt Learned and Reverend Father in God, Doctor Robert Sanderſon, now Lord Biſhop of Lincoln.
LONDON, Printed by Tho. Leach, and are to be ſold by John Martin, James Allestry, and Tho. Dicas, at the Sign of the Bell in St. Pauls-Church-Yard, 1660.
To the moſt Noble Robert Boyle, Son to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Cork, deceaſed, and Brother to Richard Earl of Cork now living.
Honourable SIR,
THis ſmall preſent whatſoever it is, coveteth to preferre it ſelf to your Truſt, and Patronage, and to come abroad into the world under the protection of your name. Moſt willingly therefore I do here make a tender of it unto you, who, as I underſtand by Fame, (and in Subjects of worth, Fame is ſeldom found a Liar) are not only Illuſtrious by the ſplendor of your Birth, but far more Illuſtrious by the nobility of a generous mind, by your love to Learning, your Humanity, Piety, and all manner of Virtue, howſoever to me living privately, and contentedly in a ſmal Cottage, and not much ſolicitous what is done abroad, eſpecially as the times noware) never known by your face, nor by your name until within theſe few Months, no nor as yet known unto me, but only by your MUNIFICENCE. Nevertheleſs I hope this poor gift will find ſome acceptance with you, becauſe having already obtained my Rod of Liberty you endeavour to encloſe me again in my antient circle, and to draw me back to my diſcontinued exerciſe, by propoſing to me ſome honeſt Salary by the excellently learned Mr. Thomas Barlow, chief Keeper of Bodleys Library in the famous▪ Univerſity of Oxford, It is indeed well…done, that in this deplorable ſtate of Civil and Eccleſiaſtical affairs, (if we may call … and a hideous confuſion of all things) there are peradventure found one or two of a more refined clay, who either by their encouragment, or their bounty are careful to comfort the ſad Muſes, and the Retainers to them, of whatſoever condition, thoſe eſpecially who being Profeſſors of true and Chriſtian Philoſophy are every where neglected, and diſpiſed, as the refuſe of the world: I… any thing therefore (by the permiſſion of the Almighty) ſhall hereafter be undertaken and publiſhed by me in this kind of writing, which pertaineth to moral Philoſophy that may be either profitable to the Publick, or uſeful to any private man, for the better Inſtitution of his life, and the framing of his manners, by the preſcript of the Divine Law and Goſpel, whether it be in the Latin tongue, or in the Engliſh, which I perceive to be more acceptable of to many of our Nation, I do here willingly acknowledge, and freely profeſſe, that for the greateſt part, it is due unto you, who were both the Author to me to undertake it, and an Aſſiſtant cheerfully to proceed in it: And do you, moſt w…r…hy Sir, proceed to do good, that is, to do that which you do already, to adorn Learning, to favour learned men, to advance Piety, to procure you faithful friends at the charges of unfaithful Mammon, that ſo ou… of the abundance of good works ſowed in this world, there may redound unto you, a moſt fruitful Harveſt of eternal bleſſedneſſe in the world to come. Amen.
From Botheby Pannel… … Lincolnſhir…. 10 Cal. Decemb. 1659.