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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88605	Loveday's letters domestick and forrein. To several persons, occasionally distributed in subjects philosophicall, historicall & morall, / by R. Loveday Gent. the late translator of the three first parts of Cleopatra.	Loveday, Robert, fl. 1655.; Loveday, Anthony.	1659 (1659)	Wing L3225; Thomason E1784_1; ESTC R202761	129,573	303

and unmixt desires from our souls as will not be dawb'd with the clay they are confin'd to I have such to ask and claim your Friendship and thus in spite of all our Leaden frailty we may take a taste of Heaven and relish the joyes we cry up with such impotent expressions in that one word perfect amity I do now begin to be so unweildy to my self and I doubt so troublesom to others though they express not so much that I borrow reasons from my Capitall infirmities to excuse those you may account the Disease of my mind c. But if this trouble be design'd to fetch me from this World I think I shall go without reluctancy I am still here in relation to my dependency like an unskilful Passenger at Sea that knowes not how long to promise himself a calm nor when to expect a storm If I may vant to have pleas'd in any thing 't is my fidelity which amounts to no more than You have done as becomes you I am glad I was not born to stand at the Sterne of an ample fortune to favour my self the best I can I should have abus'd the Divine bounty and perhaps imploy'd it chiefly in paying dearer for my sins than I have done I have receiv'd enough to make me admire the goodness of him that gave it me and indeed did not his grace help me to contrary thoughts 't were enough to make me an unequal Arbiter of mine own imperfections to act such conceptions as these is a business to which we should sacrifice no cold endeavours we live to no purpose unless in this life we learn to bid it adieu handsomly Doing well is the only requisite mark of mans Industry and he that aimes at any other mistakes that for a white which is but a spot there are so many examples of such as angle here for happiness and sometimes with ruine to boot as methinks to observe should be enough to take heed how many mount Fortunes ladder and break the staves as they go up so as they have no way to come down but by a Precipice many shoot wide and perhaps hit most happiness by missing what they fancied for it I could mention more mistakers but to close it there is no man studies the other life better than he that studies this enough to despise it It is not my desire to be understood skilful in this Science for I am bound to confesse my self subject to most wicked reluctations and there passe few houres that are not witnesses not only to stumblings but grosse falls from my best resolutions but I want your pardon I thank you for the account of my Friends which I desire you would renew as you are hinted by any extraordinary accidents I have this day wrote the sad newes to Mr. W. but I confess left out some of the Circumstances lest he should chew the bitter Pill too much that he ought to swallow I have presented you to him as you ordered and mentioned your endeavours for his satisfaction I have been so often call'd away while I was writing this as 't is no wonder if my words sit not handsomly upon my meaning when I am forc'd to make so many seames I pray present me to those friends that oblige me with remembrance in a grateful garb and believe it for 't is truth it self you are first in the soul of Your affectionate and most desirous Brother to serve you R. L. LETTER CL. To Mr. W. Dear Friend YOur last I received which by the date I perceive has halted by the way like some of his Predecessors but it had not half done its message to my eyes before I confest an ample amends for the loitering and if there be a word that may speak more then welcome conceive it uttered for indeed it is meant I see you have made use of that which has made you alwayes happy to sustain the shock of what might have stagger'd a resolution less fortified with prudence and I wish my power were as great as my desire to copy that and the rest so long as you compound and apply these soveraign medicines of piety and discretion 't is impossible your better part should grow sickly c. I inclos'd the Note to your Sister in a Letter to my Brother and oblig'd him to be very careful in sending it and to shew her the way to return you an answer of it to my hands If no weighty impediment intervenes I intend to visit my Eastern friends about the beginning of April therefore I pray prepare your commands And now my dear friend I find my health tender'd by your with such an over-flowing of affection as it hath taught me to wish it with the more ardour because I may possible incounter with occasions that may render me able to shew how highly I relish such an indearing kindness But pardon me t is more then I can do when I write to you not to be guilty of too many words so loth I am to come to an end but my comfort is you know me for what I am Yours to perpetuity R. L. FINIS Courteous Reader These Books following with others are printed for Nath. Brook and are to be sold at his Shop at the Angel in Cornhill Excellent Tracts in Divinity Controversies Sermons Devotions THe Catholick History collected and gathered out of Scripture Councils and Ancient Fathers in Answer to Dr. Van 's Lost Sheep returned home by Edward Chesensale Esquire Octavo 2. Bishop Morton on the Sacrament in Folio 3. The Grand Sacriledge of the Church of Rome in taking away the sacred Cup from the Laity at the Lords Table by D Featly D. D. Quarto 4. The Quakers Cause at second hearing being a full answer to their Tenets 5. Re-assertion of Grace Vindiciae Evangelii or the Vindication of the Gospel a reply to Mr. An●hony Burghess Vindiciae L●gis and to Mr. Ruthford by Robert Town 6. Anabaptists anatomized and silenced or a Dispute with Mr. Tombs by Mr. J. Grag where all may receive clear satisfaction in that Controversie The best extant Octavo 7. The Zealous Magistrate a Sermon by T. Threscot Quarto 8. Britannia Rediviva A Sermon before the Judges Aug. 1648. by J. Shaw Minister of Hull 9. The Princess Royal in a Sermon before the Judges March 24. by J. Shaw 10. Judgment set and Books opened Religion tried whether it be of God or Man in several Sermons by J. Webster Quarto 11. Israels Redemption or the Prophetical History of our Saviours Kingdom on Earth by R. Matton 12. The Cause and Cure of Ignorance Error and Profaneness or a more hopeful way to Grace and Salvation by R. Young Octavo 13. A Bridle for the Times tending to still the murmuring to settle the wavering to stay the wandering and to strengthen the fainting by J. Brinsl●y of Yarmouth 14. The sum of Practical Divinity or the grounds of Religion in a Catechistical way by Mr. Christopher Love late Minister of the