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To the Reader. cannot but folloTP on their being and operation and not in Cold Stories, Surmizes, and far fetch'd, or feigned Influences. And if we Jo reckon that the real advancement of religion depends onely on the fey cular advancement o f fonze that do profefs it, we may be miftaken in our meafures a others have been be- fore us. But at prefont, the Infinuations of that Preface,' do f lent to prervail much with' tho f e of thefame Party. with its Author ; who want nothing at any time but the Countenance off.ich a Pen and Story, to (went their ill will againfl Non- Conforms. Report aÿ they and we will Report it. _But alp. v as he fain, Mendacium mendacio tegendum ne perpluat. Fill evil Inventions, atway tend unto, and fand in need ofnew Additions, to render them ufeful unto their End, without Zvhich they quickly evaporate ; Where' - fore lee the Infinuations. of this worthy Perfon,fhould not befuf ficiently fubfervient.unto the Uniting ofall Proteffants in one common Intereft againf Popery,. Zvhich -vas the original 17.efign of the Drs. Sermon, fome have added unto it, that which is Ho mogeneal as unto Truth, ad j.° eafly mixing with the other Vile.our. fe ; that the Non- ponforinjíls forre of them. at leaf, do receive or have re- ceived Morley from, the Papas,' to at their Affairs and promote their Intereft. And al- though

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