Preached February 21. [1618/19]

              preached february 21 l6l8i dedicatory LETTER to the right honourable honour able the countess of montgomery MADAM of my ability to doe your ladiship ladyship Ladiship service any thing spoken may be an embleme emblema good enough for as a word vanisheth vanisheth so doth any power in me to serve you things that are written are fitter testimonies because they remain and are permanent in writing this sermon which your ladiship ladyship Ladiship was pleased to hear before I1 confesse confessed confesse I1 satisfice satisfie satisfie an ambition of mine own but it is the ambition of obeying your commandment not onely an ambition of leaving my name in in your memory orin in your cabinet and yet since I1 am going out of the kingdom and perchance out of the world when god shall have given my soul a place in heaven it shall the lesse diminish your ladiship ladyship Ladiship if my poor name be found about you I1 know what dead carkasses carcasses carkasses things written are in respect of things spoken but in things of this kinde that soul that inanimates them receives debts from them the spirit of god that dictates them in the speaker or writer and is present in his tongue or hand meets himself again as we meet our selves in a glass in the eles and eares and hearts of the hearers and readers and that spirit which is ever the same to an equall devotion makes a writing and a speaking equall means to edification in one cir- cumstance cumstance my preaching and my writing this sermon is too equall that that your ladiship ladyship Ladiship heard in a hoarse voyce then you read in a course hand now but in thankfulnesse thankfulnesse I1 shall lift up my hands as clean as my infirmities can keep them and a voyce as clear as his spirit shall be pleased to tune in my prayers for your ladiship ladyship Ladiship in all places of the world which shall either sustain or bury your ladiships Ladiships humble servant in christ lesus JJDD