14 / 772
TO THE
CHRISTIAN
READER.
Yr
f
ian
Reader,hauing
been
incouraged
by
diuers,
no
leJ
godly
then
judicious,
who
have
perufed theft
mypoore
labours,
andgiuen
them
their
approbation
;
and
not
a
little
comforted
in
my
f
lfe,in
that,
through
Gods
bl
firlg,
I
haue
been
a
meaner
of
comforting others,
for
the
refrefhing
of
whof
fainting
foules
1
chfy
intended
all
my
paines51
was
made
the
more
willing againe
to
reuiew
them,
for
thy
further
be-
nefit,
and
not
onely
to
purge them
from
max,
faults
which
f
aped
in
the
firft
impre
ion
,
but
of
to adde
föme
things
which
being
wanting
in
the
framer
edition
did
make
it
feme
maimed
and
imperfect.
As namely,
confolations
for
thofe
who
are
troubledwith tentations
ar
fng
from
blafphe-
morns
fugg(ions
; and
the
r
futatiou of
thofe
chid/ions
which
impugne
the
certainty
(four
perfeeuerance.fyet
there
be
any
thing (as
no
doubt there
are
many
things) wanting
to make
this
treatife
complete,
or
any
thing
alreadie
writ-
ten
which doth
not
give fatisfa/áion,
I
would
intreate the
godly
learned,
as
alp
thofe
who
hawing
been
long
trainedin
the
fchoole
ofthefee
f
irituall
a
ffliöions
and
tentations,
are
now
growne expert fcholars through
their
oyvne
fèeling
and
experience,
that
they
would
helpe
by
their Chr
f
ian
letters
tofupplie
my
wants,
and
to
admonif
h
me
of
my flips
that
1
may reforrxe
them.
In
the
meane time
1
commend
thofe
and
all
other
my
labours
to
the blefing of
God,
and
thy
Me
to
his
moll
gracious
and
all
jificient
prote(
-7ien.From
Lathe.
Lurie
in
London
the
2o.
o
f
0
c7ober.
i
6o
8.
Thine in
the
Lord,
IOHN
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