112- ANNUAL REGISTER, 18906. 
to disgrace his name with a poore 
monument! but when [I have be- 
forehand lay’d this necessary cau- 
tion, and ingenueusly confess’d that 
through my inabillity either to re- 
ceive or administer much of that 
wealthy stock of his glory that I 
was entrusted with for the benefitt 
of all, and particularly his owne’ 
posterity, I must withold a greate 
part from them, I hope [I shall be 
pardon’d for drawing an. imperfect 
image of him, especially when even 
the rudest draught that endeavours 
to counterfeit him, will have much 
delightfull lovelienesse in it. 
*¢ Let not excesse of love and de- 
light in the streame make us forgett 
the fountaine, he and all his excel- 
lencies came from God, and flow’d 
back He! su owne spring; there 
lett us seeke them, thither lett us 
hasten after him; there having 
* found him, lett us cease to bewaile 
among the dead that which is risen, 
or rather was immortall ; his soule 
converst with God so much when he 
was here, thatit reioyces to be now 
eternally freed from interruption in 
that blessed exercise ; his vertues 
were recorded in heaven’s annalls, 
and can never perish, by them he 
yett teaches us and all those to 
whose knowledge they shall arrive : 
*tis only his fetters, his sins, his in- 
firmities, his diseases, that are dead 
never to revive againe, nor. would 
wee have them ; they were his ene- 
mies and ours ; by faith id’Christ he 
vanquisht them : our coniunction, 
if wee had any with him, was undis- 
soluble, if wee were knitt together 
by one spiritt into one body of 
Christ, wee are so still, if wee were 
mutually united in one love of God, 
good men, and goodnesse, wee are 
so still ; what is it then we waile in 
his remoove ? the distance? faith. 
lesse fooles! sorrow only makes 
it; let us but ascend to God in 
holy ioy for the greate grace given 
his poore servant,and he is there with 
us. He is only remoov’d from the 
mallice of his enemies, for which 
wee should not expresse love to him 
in being aflicted, wee may mourne 
for ourselves that wee come so tar- 
dily after him, that wee want his 
guide and assistance in our way, and 
yet if our teares did not putt out 
our eics wee should see him even in 
heaven, holding forth his flaming 
lamp of vertuous examples and pre- 
cepts to light us through the darke 
world. Itis time that Llett in to 
your knowledge that splendour 
which while it cheares and enligh- 
tens your heavy senses, let us res 
member to give all his and all our 
glorie to God alone, who is the 
father and fountaine of all light and 
excellence, ‘ 
*¢ Desiring, if my treacherous 
memory have not lost the dearest 
treasure that ever I committed to its 
trust, to relate to you his holy, 
vertuous, honorable life, I would 
put his picture in the front of his 
booke,* but my unskillfull hand will 
iniurehim. Yet to such of you as 
have not seene him to remember his 
person, I leave this— 
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* The editor is happy to have it in his power to do this in a manner that will be 
gratifying to the lovers of the arts. ‘he original pictures of Mr. and Mrs, 
Hutchinson, with the two children, were found by him in their house at Owthorpe, 
and are now deposited, along with the manuscript, at Messrs. Longman’s and 
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