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To
THE
READER.
His following
Treatife
[The
Tryall
of
a
Chrifbians
Growth]
was
formerly
printed
during
the time
of
my
abfence out
of
my
na-
tive
Country
:
and
by
reafon
thereof
had
many
imperfeltions
and
incongruities
both
it¢
flyle
and
mattter
;
which,
now
being
agaóne
(through
the goodhand
of
God upon me
)
returned,
I
have
endea-
voured
to
amend.
So
as partly
throughfame alteration
in
the method
and
frame
of
it,
partly
by
cutting
off fame
re-
dundancies,
I
have
reduced
it
to
force betterJhape,
and
neerer proportion
to
its
fellowes.
The fcope
and
way
of
handling
this
fubjeet
[Growth]
is
not
Doctrinal!
fo
much,
nor
yet
Hortatory,
as
either
perfwading
to,
or d;
fcourfing
of
a
'Chriftians
growth in
generali,
(concerning
which
much
bath
been
already
writ-
ten
by
others) But the more
proper
aime
of
this
rs
to
refolve
A
Cafe
of
Con
fcience, (like as
thofe
two
other
preceding
Traliates
of
mine
have
done) namely
this,
How
to
difcern
our growth, and
to
anfwer
more
ufuall
temptations
about
it
:
L4nd
fo
there
three Treatifes being
of
like
fort
and
kinde,
and
properly
belonging
to
that part
of
Theologie
which
we
call
Cafe
Divinity
;
1
have
therefore
in
this
new
Edition
of
the
whole
ordered
to
put
them
together,
(which
is
all
the alteration
I
have
made) although
in
their
firft
andftngle
pubs
Jhing
forre
other
came between.
If
in
the
performance this
falls
Jhort
of
many
more...
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