Aphonologos. A dumb speech.: Or, A sermon made, but no sermon preached, at the funerall of the right vertuous Mrs Mary Overman, wife to Mr Thomas Overman the younger. Of the parish, formerly called, Saint Saviours, or vulgarly Mary Overis, in Southwarke. By B. Spencer, minister of Bromley.

TO THE READER.

WHosoever reades this Copy, I suppose will find nothing in it worth so much adoe, as Envy made to prevent the preaching of it. But as Envy is a Monoculus, so also, she is suspicious. She had but one eye, and that is a bad one, but many jealousies of those she lookes asquint upon. Doe not thou looke throw her spectacles, and thou wilt find in the Author, rather worke for pitty, then Envy, and his Sermon rather craving mercy, then deserving malice. Read then whithout prejudice, this dumb Sermon of his, whom his adversaries account no better of, then a dead dog. Thou needst not think the worse of him,* 1.1 nor it. The Apostles were recko∣ned as the filth and off-scouring of all things. And Turks call Christians dogs. And I wonder not when brethren of the same Family are falne out, to hear them

miscall one another. For from among our selves must men arise, speaking per∣verse things, saith S. Paul. Well,* 1.2 let them speak, doe thou read. It may be Mutimagistri, dumb teachers, such as Books are, may give thee more light then some great talkers. God direct thee, Farewell.

Notes

• * 1.1

  1 Cor. 4.13.
• * 1.2

  Acts 20.30.