.. •. /'- I · · [ ix ] 'f~e I u~d my. Spunge, .and took 'Out as many Exptei– fions-of my Author's native Language, as I thought would difturb ~n Englijh Reader. -subftituting fuch as a£peared fufficiently intelligible. Which being done, the· Bookfeller was wife enough to fet the Prefs going~ I fig_nified my Purpofe to tatechife Youth publickly in the Pofitions .and Characters ·of this· "Book, one · Lord's-Day; as in Weftminjler :Ajfemhlj'.s Catechifm, on the other by Courfe. Which Pr~~ice other Mini- - fters foon told ·me, that .they would take up. As_, I truft m~y more would do , forafmuch, as none can be unfenfible what Multitudes of Men do go to grafs op this Side the .Alp.r, as well as on the other; and .what a fantaftick Faith common Pi'oteftants do reft in, _as well as Romanifts.~ Making Sho\v of a Faith, _.as the J.Yloon ·of a.: L~ght, whereof not any is in thernfelve_s t66ted. Sadly it is feen ofall, how Brit, is painted, too too properly we are ilill na, 'lain, is aNation. med Britains.; the Faith of moft · _· · be_ing fuch. a P~int, as Cafi!lOt but melt and vanifh in any TriaJ that i~iiery. Memorable , ary the Words of the learned unhap– py Spalato, to this- Effe8 a.s I remember. r'o Jay, that I do not myfelf !mow, why I dq helieve a Re– ligiou, .Article, hut yet I do helieve it, hecauft the Church in : which 1__ am doth helieve it ; it i the filf-Jame •a.r to fay, I do ·not myfelf open one of my Eyes, hut yet I do fee tbe CJ'hing jpo~en of, hccauft · the Copzpany in which lam doth fee -it. The good Lord leffel) among us the NJimber of Men fo abfurd, and fo plainly void of Faith r l-Ie hath already made the Leave~ of this Book {o · ATO'lf'Ot. _healing unto fome, 'that in great Hopes I commend - them unto all. And efpecially t() the Societies ofyoung ' . · lVlen,
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