The Introdurlton, of Defign chiefly, at firff, to advantage mY felf, and fatisfy my Confcience. (2.) In 'pur Bing this Motion and Inclination of Heart, I have found fuch Contentment and Advan- tage, through the Lord's Mercy, being clear- ed and fatisfied in feveral important Difficul- ties, which much ffraitned my Confcience, that I faw no Ground to repent of my Under- taking: And I conceived, That what was ufeful to me, might, through the Lord's Bleffing, be fo to others, towhom I am de- voted, and whore I am more than my own. This I looked upon as a call to put Hand to this Work. (3.) I have been made, with ,Grief and Sorrow of Heart, to apprehend the doleful Miflakes, and dangerous Errors of Tome in this Matter, who being of rank Wits, and - unfantified Hearts, and fending up ,the Fume of their frothy and exuberant Conceptions, fìrff flagger, and then intricate' their fimple Readers Hearts; and by whom Satan, I think, bath, at this prefen4 a woful, but, alas! prevalent Defign to.overturn the Gofpel, and to draw us from the Simplicity thereof ; and all this Poifon, in the mean Time, vailed with the Authority of Men in Repute for Piety, Learning, and with the Concourfe of the multitude of all Ranks; who, with a loud Voice, cry up this Diana,. and finally masked with the fpecious Pretext, of crying up, and advancing Holinefs, and Neceff
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