3rL The preface. HE Reafon why I think it needful, to adjoyz3 the f e few Dire.1ions to the P4lors, are : Firft, Becaufe 1 think that the refi will do but littlegoad with- out them. Though the people are more inclined tofe- parations than the Pallor!, yet are the Pallor; the, greater caufes of moll of the Divißons in the Church; And therefore muff be the chiefelt in the Cure : Be- carp the advantage of their partsand place, doth make ,them mollfignificant in both : (And their office ob- ligeth them to be the wit skilful and forward in the Core.) Secondly., Beca>fe I Jhouldbe chargeable with fwch partiality as befeemeth not a Minifter of ChriFt ; if d ihould fall upon the mifcrariages o f thepeople only, andfay nothing to my felf and brethren , ohs are as deeply concerned in the matter in hand. Yet I mall here prepsfe, that as l have done this part withgreater brevity, f alfo withfubmive ten- dernefs and refpect: And that I do not at all intend any of the Directionsfotlorcing,a4 a v*Zagriffrrial Ditlator ao thofe in authority ; nor any of the admonitions , a fallow refle5lions upon fasperiors or inferiors ; or aa; pleadin for or againfl anyparty now among us. To tie reafons aftergiven for tendernefs to Religiä difrenters, though too much inclined toreparations, 0411 here only add Firfl, That the general weak- nefs, evenof the .Paflors throughmofl of the Churches upon earth, fhaysld make utt rather pity the ss'eakne,fs of Z- 4 the
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