EPISTRE.

half of what another, more eloquent than I, would write of the excellence of your perfections with much grace; but not with more truth; nor with more affection to testify to the obligations I owe to your bountiful nature. Therefore, I will strive, as long as it pleases God to prolong my life, to obey your commands so perfectly that I shall find nothing impossible, even if I had to undertake a Work more difficult than this one: which is offered to you with all manner of submission, by the one who glories in calling himself,

MY LORD,