THE FIRST POINTE. Of Gods Benefits to man in his Creation.
CONISDER that God who is infinitly gre∣at, and infinitly, and evernally happy in himselfe, seeinge thinges
To the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Osborne, Viscount Latimer, Lord High Treasurer of England Reasons humbly offered to consideration for the erecting of several light-houses upon the north-coast of England, for the security and increase of navigation &c. viz. 1. A double light-house at St. Nicho. Gat. 2. A light-house upon the Stagger-land at Cromer. 3. A light-house upon flambro-head. 4. A light-house upon Fern-Island.
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- To the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Osborne, Viscount Latimer, Lord High Treasurer of England Reasons humbly offered to consideration for the erecting of several light-houses upon the north-coast of England, for the security and increase of navigation &c. viz. 1. A double light-house at St. Nicho. Gat. 2. A light-house upon the Stagger-land at Cromer. 3. A light-house upon flambro-head. 4. A light-house upon Fern-Island.
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- [Phrip, Richard].
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- [London :: s.n.,
- 1680]
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- Lighthouses -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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"To the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Osborne, Viscount Latimer, Lord High Treasurer of England Reasons humbly offered to consideration for the erecting of several light-houses upon the north-coast of England, for the security and increase of navigation &c. viz. 1. A double light-house at St. Nicho. Gat. 2. A light-house upon the Stagger-land at Cromer. 3. A light-house upon flambro-head. 4. A light-house upon Fern-Island." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A70798.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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which are not, as thinges that are, out of his meere Good∣nesse, without any neede of vs, beinge neither preuented by any merits of ours, not prouoked by hopes of retur∣nes, raysed vs out of nothinge to his owne likenesse; presen∣ted vs with the whole world; made vs absolute Lords ouer it, and ouer all the great va∣rietie of thinges comprised in it, for our vse. Finally he en∣dowed vs with a reasonable soule; capable of himselfe, to enioy him for euer.
AFFECTION. Where were wee, where were wee (soe∣longe, or soe longe agoe) my soule? where were wee, and all that wee glory in, while wee yet were not? Ah while wee slept in our nothinge, he
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who watches ouer Israël slept not. But loued vs vvith a per∣petuall loue. he made a world for vs; not vs for the world: he made vs Lords ouer it, not slaues to it. He gaue vs all thinges to vse, not to inioy: to solace our pilgrimage, not to stay vs from our contry. Heauen, my soule, is our con∣try: the Kinge of Heauen our possession, which we are made to inioy. Be it farre from vs to loue the benefits, more then the bountiful be∣nefactor: or to glory in our selues; or any thinge; while we and they are Equally his free gifts: