To the Christian Reader. dltìon of them towhorish wits wrote, their Perfwafions, Prejudices, Cullom,, tightand Traditions, the Covenant and Wor(hip of the Church of old, the Tran¡lation of Covenant Priviledges and 1 orfhip over taro the Gentiles upon a newaccount, the courfe of Providential Differfations that the people were under, the near expiration of their Church and state, with the [peaty approaching of their utter abolition and de/lrue`lion, with the Temptations that befell them on all thefe various acuunts; Without which, it is impel= fible for any one Jufily to follow the Apo(tle, fo es to keep claie to his deign, or fully to underhand his mind andmeaning. If any ¡hall think, that Ihave referred too many things unto theCullom: andViages of theJews, and looked too much after Tome guidance in fundry Exprefsions and Difcourfes ofthe Apoflle from them ; I only .Infwer, that Of when 1 am convinced by particu- lar inflances of mi(lakes therein , I ¡hail willingly acknowledge them : fo for the prevent I am latisfied, that other Expofitors have bad much too little regard thereunto. The Expoftion of the Text is attended with an improve- ment of Pra6lical Obfervations, anfwering the great end for which the Bpi- file was committed over to all Generations far the ufe of the church. If its force of them 1 (hall teem to any to have been too Prolix, 1 mall only An- fwer, that having no other way to ferve the Edification of the Generality of cbriftians, i thought not fo. Tet to prevent their farther objeclient on that account, i intend, that if ever any addition in the Jame work be prepared for publick view, to regulate my proceedings therein, according as I ¡hall have account from PerEonsof Learning and Godlinefs, concerning that courfe ofprof cedure, which they e(teem to tend moll to the goodand edification oftheChurch ofGod, to whofe Judgement Iheartily fubmtt the(e andall other endeavours ofthe like kind, whereunto Ihavebeen, or yet may be called. JOFdN OWSN ERRATA
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