

To·
the
Reader.
Parts on {everalOccafions, Qr had I
yet
lime
and Strength to have cafl it into
a 111ore regular fbape,ii might have been
I
partly a11zended: Bttt
I
had rather it
ctJme
out thw than not at all : Whoever,
_ .
u
di[pleafed at it,
hy
guilt or different
.
juclg11zent,
I
will pleafe nzy Confcience,
whofe Peace I find
poilible
and
quiet–
. ting,
while fuch Mens bath been
neither
hitherto
to
111e.
·
I'
fznow
·that Age
and
NaturalWe
a~~
nefs; hath heen
part of
the
C
aufe of
nzy
forgetting ·.
oft
that
I
had written the
{a11ze
,
before.
.
But
while
l
confefs
thh
l.nfirnzity,
J.
will tell the Reader
two.Sto-
ries
"for
his ufe
of
it.
.
1
read in
a
great
Man
that ·
oft
re–
peating -in the
Pulpit
the
[an1e
thing,
was
9
fign
to
the Hearers, that their
,
Teacher
{pa~e
not
crudely
and
rt(fhly
that
he
had
never digefled
or
well flu–
·.died,nor
light things tbat
he
valued
JZOto•
hit! that which he thought
nece!fa'J
and
had
long conjiclered.
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