To the Reader.

I Having the Original of this Coppy committed to my hands by the Author thereof, (it being a grand part of his serious meditations, during the time of his imprisonment in Rochester) was desired by many of the Inhabitants and others adjacent, to tran∣scribe the same, that it might be com∣mitted to Presse, thereby to come to the publique view. The Peece it self is but small, yet full of many precious Truths: and altho penned by a Person statned with the guilt of the blood of his own Si∣ster, yet in it thou shalt find so much of Gods glorious Countenance shining out upon him, (after so long a time of Gods with-drawing) which thou shalt find ful∣ly discovered in his last Speech, annex∣ed to this Treatise; that thou maiest conclude with me, doubtless he is now at rest in the arms of a faithful Redeemer.

Page  [unnumbered] Iudge charitably, accept of it kind∣ly, and walk thank fully with God for a• his mercies: These are the only desire of him, that is