Plus Ultra (1668) - Page 22

Horizontal decorative printer's ornament consisting of repeating floral motifs.

THE

PREFACE

TO THE

REVEREND CLERGY

OF THE

Diocese of B. and W. Bath and Wells

FATHERS and BRETHREN,

THE respect I owe you, and the relation the following discourse hath to a Reverend Man of your number, make me reckon myself obliged, in point of civility and decorum, to give you an account of this engagement; not that I think so meanly of YOU, or of my cause, as to endeavor to bribe or flatter You into any partiality of judgment in my