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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.
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