A glasse for the times
About this Item
- Title
- A glasse for the times
- Author
- Seaman, Lazarus, d. 1675.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by T.R. and E.M. for John Rothwell at Sun and Fountain in Pauls church-yard,
- 1650.
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- Subject terms
- Sermons, English
- Cite this Item
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"A glasse for the times." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A92775.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.
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To the Right Honorable Thomas Foot, Lord MAjOR of the City of LONDON, With the rest of the Court of Aldermen.
Right Honorable and Right Worshipful,
I Trouble not my selfe with thinking what there was in my poor labours which might occasion you, or any of you to desire, that is, to command me to print what I had preached in your hearing. When we are weak, then we are strong. May it please God to glorifie his power, through my infirmity; I shall rejoyce, and you shall reape some profit. But by this meanes I am forced to confesse (which otherwise had beene concealed,) that I had no Notes to bound my utterance then, or now to guide me in preparing for the Presse, save
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those which were since transcribed by a ready Wri∣ter: without whose help I had not been able to let the world see what it was which you heard.
My spare time since hath not sufficed for to prune, and much lesse to dresse and order the exuberancies, either of my owne expressions, or of his pen. Nei∣ther have I minded to file this little piece into such a smoothnesse of phrase, or lick it into such a comli∣nesse of proportion as might make it lovely and grace∣full to peruse. And though to inlarge the subject in some way of more particular, and quickning appli∣cation, might conduce most to the Conversion of sin∣ners, and Reconciliation among those who through Division are at enmity among themselves, which was the scope of the whole; yet I am confined, to what you called for, and presume not further, because the slip is easie from a digression, into a transgression.
I pray for the peace of your City, let them prosper who love it. And am.
Yours, in the service of Jesus Christ, L A. SEAMAN.