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Excerpt from The Works of John Howe, M.A., Sometime Fellow of Magdalen College Oxon, Vol. 3: The Living Temple; Or a Designed Improvement of That Notion, That a Good Man Is the Temple of God
My Honoured Lord,
I have not the opportunity of begging your lordship's foregoing leave to prefix your name to these papers, but despair not of your following pardon. Your name must be acknowledged great through two potent empires, Christian and Mahometan; and the services greater, which yon have done to many that may perhaps not have heard the sound of your name. Your prudent and prosperous negotiations in the Austrian and Ottoman Courts have obliged multitudes, whose better genius hath taught them more to value themselves than to think they were born to slavery; from which you have found means, in great part, to save Europe; somewhere, by charming great power, so as to conquer the inclination to use it to so ill a purpose; elsewhere, by preventing its increase, where that inclination was invincible. And hereby you have dignified England, in letting it be seen what it can signify in the world, when it is so happy to have its interest managed by a fit and able hand.
Yet that knowledge your lordship hath heretofore allowed me to have of you, cannot suffer me to think you will account your name too great to patronise the cause asserted in the following discourse. That it is unpolished will not affect your lordship; let that rest where it ought.
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