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THE
PREFACE.
THE
great
ufeefulnefs
of
Hifiory
needs not
many
words
to
prove
it,
f
eing
natural
inclination
it
felf
is fò
much
for
it,
and
reafon
and
experience
tell
men,
that
they
cannot/pare
it,
as
to
Natural,
Civil, or Religious
afe.
God himfelf
hath
.highly
com-
inended
it
to
us,
by
writing
the
Sacred
Scriptures
fi
mach
H
f
orically
9
yea
and
making fame
of
it
part
of
the
nece7ry
Articles
of
our Creed.
Children
that yet
underhand
not
the
Do/lrinalpart
of
the Bible, do
quickly
take delight
in
the Hiflorical
part
5
which
prepareth them
for
the
ref
Ignorant
and
ungodly
perfons
that
have no trite
feenfe
of
Sacred
Dodrine,
can
yet
underfland
and
with
lef
averfnefi
and
marine's' read
the h
f
ory.
Melancholy
and
fad
perfons
who
can
hardly
bear
long
Do5drinal
"ladies
, are often
eafed
and
recreated
with
ufeefd
Hiflory.
Man
is
a part
of
the
Úniverfe,
and
every
man
is
a
part
of
the
world
of
mankind,
and
therefore thivkgth the
cafe
of
the
whole
to
be
much
of
his
concerne.
And
were
not narrow
fe
ffbnes
much
of
oar
Pravity,
we
fbould
take the
univerfal
and
public(
good, and
Gods
Love
to
it and
Pleafednef
and
Glory
in it,
to
be
mach more our
end,
and
the objeli
of
our defire
and
delight, than
any
perfoonal
felicity
of
our
own
g
It
is
a Mother of
inhumanity
in
the
Dotirine
of
the
Sad-
ducees,
Sp.inofa,
Hobbes,
and
their
bruitifb
followers,
that
they
fet
up
Individual
fe
f
interefi
as a
mans
chiefefl
end
-and objeïl
of
rational
Love
and
deßre7
and
own vo Good,
but
that
which
Rela-
tively
is
Good
to me,
that is, either
my
perforallife
and
pleafure
as
theend,
or other
things as
a
means- thereto
:
Though
Grace
only
f
ving-
ly cure
this
bate
inhumane maladie,
yet
common reafon
bearcth
wit
-
nef
againft
it,
and
only
fenfe,
and
reafon
captivated
by
feì
f
do
pa-
tronize it.
Put
not
the
quef
ion
to
a
reajánable
man,
though wicked,
what he
can
do or
Both But
what
in reafon,he
ího
rld
do, and
he
cannot
deny
bat
that
he
frould
thinkoff
a
more excellent pérfon
at
the
Indies, that
never
will
do
anything far-hinr,
asmorea;wwiable
than him-
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