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ix
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'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,