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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59934	[Evangelion aionion eis t aionch] doxotaton, or, A glimpse of gospel glory. The first part together with a short but pithie treatise of Mr. E.D. shewing that Peter was never at Rome : to which is subjoyned as an appendix some pregnant collections by ... H. Nelson ... to a like purpose.	Sherwin, William, 1607-1687?; E. D., Mr.; Nelson, H., 17th cent.	1661 (1661)	Wing S3404; ESTC R25256	86,334	226

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OR A GLIMPSE OF Gospel Glory Together with a short but pithie Treatise of Mr. E. D. shewing tha● Peter was never at Rome to which 〈◊〉 subjoyned as an Appendix some pregn●●● Collections by that Grave and Reverend ●●vine Mr. H. Nelson B. D. to a like purpo●● The First Part. Hanc scilicet fallaciam scripturarum negle●● in Christianismum bodie de Antichristo intru●● Viricus Velenus Minhoniensis LONDON Printed by M. S. for Tho. Parkhurst at the Th●●● Crownes against the great Conduit at the lower end of Cheap-side 1661. Vere Honorabili ac ter Reverendo Domino Roberto Saundersono S. S. Theologiae Doctori pridem in Celeberrima Accademia Oxoniensi Regio Professori ornatissimo jam vero Dioecesis Lincolniensis Episcopo Eximio minutae hae ab indigno authore Evangelicae Gloriae dantor humiliterque exhibentor scintillulae To the Right Honourable and very Reverend Robert Lord Bishop of Lincolne the Author of the ensuing Treatise wisheth all Peace and Glory through and according to the Gospel of Jesus Christ the Lord of all My Lord I Doubt not but your known worth for learning soundness of judgement piety and conscience-satisfying skill and experience hath singled you out as a fit object of eminent honour from the publick Authority of this Nation who yet do appear more honorable in the esteem of conscientious Christians in regard of that truly Christian frame of Spirit remarkeably in you by your ready propensity in promoting of unitie manifest by your willingness to the taking away the hinderances thereof in these divided times the like disposition of mind would also be justly honorable in all of your ranke that substantial good in Religion might more be advanced but shaddows and seeming appearances less and the glory of Gospel grace above all other glories for which the Apostles rule is both general and peremptory 1 Cor. 14. 26. Let all things be done to edifying How might truth and peace by that means soon be settled in the Church which ought of all men to be esteemed of far greater value then all their worldly interests yea then a mans own dearest present life And truly so much as I know my own heart in my most retired thoughts I have often offered in these distractions amongst good men even my life as an expiation unto God if he would take it in any way of his faithful service upon that account so that I dying truth and peace might live and florish in this our Israel yet I may happily amongst some be deemed an obstructer of both but as according to my measure I have been studious of the one so according to your Honours ancient testimony of me I have followed the things that make for the other to the utmost of my power neither am I changed from my former principles though now in sundry respects I may not perhaps have the same freedome I confidently beleeve the soveraign hand of divine providence in special favour not only to my self but to many much better deserving persons hath in this juncture of time given you the inspection over us the consideration whereof with other special favours which you readily chearfully aunciently vouchsafed unto me with the observatioon of such your Christian frame of spirit still abiding in you whom new and eminent honour known learning sound judgment worldly interest or engagements appear not to have made either less humble meek peaceable or charitable and that man that is well moulded up from such materialls and in his better part as it were fitly compounded of four such elements must needs be of a good constitution such living Christians adde a glory to Gospel glory I would my small Mite here offered could adde unto your store yet if it doe but occasion you better to weigh and value what you already have to the praise of him that gives us all it may prove some advantage to you then I should be well appaid and shall thankfully returne the praise to him by whose remarkeable grace I have been carried on therein who as the Apostle speaketh Colos 1. 29. striving according to his working who worketh in me mightily Yet one thing more doth move me to this address I have long since known you a strong Champyon of sound truth against Popish errours witness your ancient conditions of dispute against Mr. Ford well worthy of the worlds view and profitable for such use which happily deterred him from proceeding In the same general cause many times appeared your reverend father and my worthy friend Mr. H. Nelson to whom about thirty years now past I communicated a short but pithie discourse of Mr. E. D. a reverend person related to him from whom I received it and since also to my self which hereunto I have annexed which your good father so well approved of notwithstanding all Antichristian flourishes to the contrary that he was pleased to write some notes of his own upon it some of which I transcribed into the margin I cannot say all and whose collections to like purpose as an Appendix I have also subjoyned thereunto which after many years lying aside unthought of upon my late removal were offered to my view upon the perusal whereof I considering the known gravity and piety of both the Authors with the worth of their workes fit to antidote such weakelings as are lyable to that danger against the strong contagion of that popish pestilence by beating down the main pillar of that foundationless fabrick no wonder then the prophetical spirit Rev. 8. 18. 1. reitterates her ruine Babylon the great is fallen is fallen Vt ingens pondus mole sua ruens as an huge and mighty pile weltring downward by its own weight since her supposed foundation failes her yea is discovered to be but a lye which I here likewise tender unto your Lordship but not with further expectation from your self in respect of this or the other to be approved then as they will endure the tryall by the Touchstone of all saving truth the written word of God and consonant to sound judgment and reason and answerably thereunto a blessing from his divine Majesty thereupon to whom in that case all the praise will be due and to whom in the mean time his prayer shall be presented before the throne of grace in the behalf of your self your deare yoakefellow and all yours that he would largely display the spiritual glory of Gospel grace in and unto all your soules to a greatertransformation of them into the same Image by the Lord the Spirit as followeth to the inlargement of all your eternal glory who is My Lord Your Honours long obliged though unworthy servant in Christ W. Sherwin From my study July 1661 TO THE CHRISTIAN READER and more especially to my Honored Friends and Kinsmen Thomas Bowles of Wallington Esquire and Mr Tho Bowles his eldest Sonne with the rest of that Family a choice and chiefe part of my late Charge