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1040101MMION
TO
THE
READER
R. Arthur
Dent's
Book
called The
Plain
Mans Path
way
to
Heaven,
was
fo
well
accepted becaufe
it
was
a plain
familiar
Dialogue,that,
about
forty
years
ago,
I
had
one,
Paid
to
be
of
the
thirtieth
Impreífion.
While
I
was
thinking
to
endeavour
the reprinting of
it,
thole
reafons
that
hindered me,did perfwade
me
to do
fomewhat
like
it
to the
fame
Ends.
Accordingly
I
began in
the
three
or four
firh
dayes
Conference
to
(-peak
as
much
as
I
could
in
the
language
of
the Vulgar,
though
I
thought it not bell
fo
to hold on to
the
End
;
i.
Becaufe
it would
have made
the
Book
too big,
or
elle have neceffitated me
to leave
out
much
that
cannot(in
order to
prauice)be
well
(pared
;
2
.Becaufe
I
may fuppofe
that
riper
Chri-
hians
need
not
fo
loofe
a
hile
or method
as
the
ignorant and vulgar
do;
And the
later part
of
the
cook
fuppofeth
the
Reader to be
got above
A 4
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