_My humble cry_ (Madam) _to the_ Lord _shall never cease, those all those your many_ obligations _of both_ temporall _and_ eternall mercies, _may_ (_like chaines of_ Adamant) _draw and bind your precious_ Soul _more and more to resolve (by his grace assisting) to make his name_ great, _who hath made your so and so to love his_ Name, _his_ Son, _his_ Spirit, _his_ Truth, _his_ Children, _that others at the_ Torch _of your_ exemplary meeknesse _and_ fear _of_ God, _may light and kindle theirs; That your_ Souls-eye _more and more brightly may see him who is_ invisible, _and may so experimentally resent those_ invisible _and_ internal Honors, pleasures _and_ profits _that are in him that in comparison_ _thereof the_ visible _and_ worldly, _may be accounted by you but_ dreams _of_ shadows, _&c. That your_ great desire _may be a_ likenesse _of so_ high _and_ holy, _and so dear a_ Saviour, _and_ (_as in other_ excellencies _so_) _in that especially of a desire_ of saving _others_, _your_ Children, Kindred, Servants, Friends, _yea_, Enemies: _that neither the pleasing_ calme _of_ prosperity, _nor the dreadfull_ storms _of_ changes, _may quench or dampe that holy_ fire _of your souls_ love (_in_ Life _and_ Death) _to_ Him _whom your_ Ladyship _hath so much infinite cause to love, but never yet saw, in whom, and for ever_ _I desire to be_ Your HONOURS unfeignedly faithfull. =R. W.= [Illustration] To every truly _Christian Reader_. [Sidenote: Thy Maker is thy Husband. Isa. 52.] As it is in the _Earthly_, so it is in the _Heavenly Marriage_ of a poor _Sinner_ to his _Maker_. There useth first to passe a _private_ kindling of Love, and a private _consent_ and _promise_ (which sometimes are long) before the _open solemnity_, and the _publike profession_ of a Married Life together. This is my present _designe_, (not to controvert the matters of publike _Order_ and _Worship_, but) to present some poor Experiments of those Personall _excellencies_ of each true beleeving _soule_ and _spirit_. [Sidenote: Isa. 40.] [Sidenote: Prov. 21.] The Holy _Spirit_ (in _Isaiah_) tels us of _Ballances_ wherein the most _High_ weighs the _Hills_ and _Mountains_: As also in _Solomon_, of _Ballances_ wherein hee weighs the very _Spirits_, even of men whose way is right in their owne eyes. And in _John_ (14.) he commands us to try the _Spirits_, pretending to come from _Christ Jesus_, whether they be of _God_, or no. [Sidenote: Great pretences to the holy Spirit of God.] There is not the grossest _Protestant_ or _Papist_, but pretends to the _Spirit_ of _God_; yea that horrid _Monster Mahomet_, blusht not to avouch that in the _Forme_ of a _Dove_, the holy _Spirit_ of _God_ did whisper in his _eare_ from _Heaven_. Now blessed is that _Spirit_, _publike_ or _private_, who is truly willing and joyfull to lye downe in the _Ballances_ of the _Lords_ weighings.