[ J / ... Vlll Englifo, or any Bur.opean Language, any one raflfJ.. nafe.of Chriftianity, in Method .fuited to them, who do moft need it? Hc:.th any one Writer, befide our Author, fet himfelf to teach Minors the primary Evi– dences and reafonable Demonftrations qf Chrifrian ' Faith ?, I will con him my ... beft Thank~ who fhall name me fo much as one. ~ How found, and how generous a Medicine this Treatife is, let 't~e Wife judge, I declare it to_be the only one, that on rio flight Enquiry I have. heard of. Being fo, I no fooner read it;, but I bleffed it, and its. unknown Author. Privately and public}dy I praifed . it, and iinding it not't9 be had in our Shops, nor but froth Holland, if from thence, to be gotien,. I pre– fently reiol~ed to re-prin~ it. Soon after, hearing. who was the Author, and where he was, I fent him notice of that ·my :fixed Refolution, whether he con– fented to it or no. For thus, I argued, tha~ if he _ were of the ~ave~l~ Spirit_, breathing ·in his Book,1 .~e / ' could not gamfay it; and' tf ~e were .of ·an.other Spx.. Jit;_- for the Church's Service, it would be innocent' and praife-worthy to crofs it. But,. bletred be God~ and bleffed be he from: his Lord ~nd mi~, .. he readily ' forgave me this Wrong,.. and cheerfully I prqceeded. No Lion found.I in my Way; but a forry Worm I counted the Exclamations of fome nice Folk, againft· the Phrafe and Style of this confe~edly excellent Work. Dutifully I compaffionated the Weak;· and no lefs the many Sick, of Curiofity. Who have fuch Ulcers in th~ir Palates,_ that they cannot, withont cruel Pain:, fwallow the moft defireable Dainties, unlefs they may take them in Oil and Sugar. · Cannot prevail with– felves to read Periods, that require an attentive Mind:, .and the leaft Strain of th~ir Under.fiandinz. Where- . ' · , , ·-- - ~-- ~ - -· - · fore ' ' . , -~ , I
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