Davvnings of light wherein the true interest of reformation is opened in generall, and in particular, in this kingdome for the establishment of weaker judgements, and many other things impartially hinted, to a further discovery of truth and light in many of our present controversies : with some maximes of reformation / by John Saltmarsh ...
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- Davvnings of light wherein the true interest of reformation is opened in generall, and in particular, in this kingdome for the establishment of weaker judgements, and many other things impartially hinted, to a further discovery of truth and light in many of our present controversies : with some maximes of reformation / by John Saltmarsh ...
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- Saltmarsh, John, d. 1647.
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- 1646.
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"Davvnings of light wherein the true interest of reformation is opened in generall, and in particular, in this kingdome for the establishment of weaker judgements, and many other things impartially hinted, to a further discovery of truth and light in many of our present controversies : with some maximes of reformation / by John Saltmarsh ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A60972.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.
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To the Honourable, The Knights and Burgesses for the County of Yorkshire, in the Commons House of Parliament, viz. The Lord Generall Fairfax, Sir William Strickland, Sir Philip Stapleton, Sir Henry Cholmley, Sir William Ali∣son, Mr. Henry Darly, M. Hoyle, M. Alu∣red, M. Pelham, &c.
I Should exceed an Epistle, to speak of you in your severall spheres of activity, for the advance∣ment of the cause of God; Some of yee have jeoparded your lives in the high places of the Field; Some of yee offered
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your selves, willingly among the people. When the great work of God is finished, the names of those shall be sought for that have acted for him, and it shall be said, What honour and dig∣nity hath been done to Mor∣deca•• for this? You that work both for God & your Countrey, shall bee recorded both in the Chronicle of Heaven & Earth: And ye are the more eminent in this, that ye have sate out the A∣posta••ies, and unfortunate fai∣lings of so many (preserved through the power of Christ) They went out from ye, be∣cause they were not of yee: And such is the quality of your employment, that ye may learne to be at once both Saints, and Statesmen, in this work: for the daily opening of the secrets of affairs before ye, both religious
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and civill, may make your house a Senate and a Temple; and the more spiritually ye work in State-affairs, ye act in a higher capacity then common Statesmen, or former Parliaments.
My prayer is for ye, That ye may be stedfast and unmove∣able, alwayes abounding in the work of the Lord, know∣ing that your labour shall not be in vain in the Lord.
So prayes your Servant, John Saltmarsh,