To the Poor in. Spirit. my Brethren- Pelt cry mouth by tellingme , that others had 'written before me of Heaven and Baptism : andyet my labours were not loft. Next this, I thought the crudity andweakaefs .of the Writing momfuck, is lhould prohibit the publi- cation, it being unfit to thrufl upon the World, the bah tindigeflcd lines that were written for the of e of one perfon. To this my theuhts re- plied, That 1.'Fcr all that, it might be au feful to poor Women, and Country people, who moll commonly prove the troubled Jpirits for whole fakes I wrote it. IIad 1 writ for the rife of .Learnedmen, I would have tried to make it fit- terfcr their ufe : andif I couldnot, I wouldhave (uppreled it. 2. It wu my Pride that nott- ri,flied this fcruple, which moved me not to ap- pearf é homely to the World, and therefore 1 caft it by, One thing more I confe fs did muchprevail with me tomake thefe Papers Tublike: and that is, the Antinomians common, confident obtrufion of their Anti- Evangelical clo Trines and method's forcemfortirg troubedfouls. They are the moll notorious ,Mountebanks in this Art, the highefl pretenders, andunhappierperformers, that molt ofthe Reformed Churches ever knew.. And none trlitany are readier to receive their doctrines, then filchweak women or unskilfulpeople, that being in Trouble, are like a lick man in great pain, who
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