| Title: | Copy Letter In Hand ?, John Dury To Philip, Lord Wharton |
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| Dating: | 17 April 1640 |
| Ref: | 6/4/40A-41B: 40B, 41A-B BLANK |
[6/4/40A]
[Hartlib's hand: 17 of April 1640.]
Hamburg 17 April
Right Honourable.
If the Continuance of such vnderserved favours as your Lordshipp from tyme to tyme hath poured vpon mee should not make mee fruitfull in the duetyes of Love towards God of thankfulnes towards your noble selfe & of dillgence & zeale towards my calling I should bee found a Barren ground both in respect of God and of man Therefore I must needs acknowledge in God his providence over mee in your Lordshipp the good will & benevolence shewed bountifully vnto mee & lastly in my selfe the obligations which I owe vnto the one and the other For this is all that I can returne namely to God praise to his Service Zealous affeccions & sincerity[altered] & to his Instruments of my support therein gratefull respects & earnest prayers for theire prosperity desiring that the lord would bee pleased to shine vpon all such as for the love of his name are not ashamed to thinke vpon his meanest Servants And certainely if a Cupp of Cold water given to a prophet in the name of a prophet shall not want a reward such large benevolences shall not bee forgotten Onely it will beseeme mee as to depend more absolutely vpon Almighty God in all my ways Soe to bee a Continuall Rememberancer of him for the good of those who are thus Benefactors to his worke which I shall never cease to doe For a witnes before him that knoweth all hearts that I will bee always to the vtmost of my ability.
your Lordshipps most humble &
obliged Servant I. D.
[left margin: H]
To my Lord Wharton.
Philip