MIN To the Reader. Letters, I was willing to part from my Copy, with expreffe charge to him who received it,(a Friend to London' upon good Kealons rendered,that it fhould only be furvaied by (me skilful dtiniflers, to bave their opinion and adcoice about the fitneffe of the publication, ere it came to the authorized Licenfer : fcr two eyes fee more then one, And in matters of this kind (it is well known to force) I have not trr fled my felfe : Every man in his own caufe is party, and thereon( partied. Lookers on, often fee more then the 45 ors do.But being prevented, it was put into thee xaminers hand,before I had Pet to my la ft hand, Afterward it was by my riend,fent to me to be pi,lifbed andpercesed. Per - ving how heavens providence had brought it thus upon the Stage, that.zt might bothfee and give light, what' was I that I /bould refill it ? Where it may be marked, t hat where God lea- der, the way, there it is fafe following and coming after. I yeelded the more willingly, conftderingthemotion and opinion of many Judicious friends (touching the (uitfulnefTeofit) did call it out ; atfo for that my other weake endevours in this kind, namely, my I?iFiionary of the Scriptures, found gracious accep- tation and entertainment: of this pre fent worke, t have the more reafon to hope well,not only becaufe o f t h :excellency and variety of the matters handled, and namely,in the many and main dip. rences between the antient faith of the Romans to inborn Paul wrote,andthe new apftart opinions ofour'educed Romanifts, agadn /I whom we preachand write; but alfo for the unufuall and not unprofitable manner of teaching by Interpretations, Do- $rines,Reafons,and Ufes; a forme wherein never any Comment on this Epifilc vas fet forth before. As Jacob when histonnes were to travail into Egypt forCorne, prayed for them, Paying,' The God Almighty give you mercy before the man ; fo to this Treatife being to travvell into many places, I 11,0 that it may find favour in their eyes that !hall read it.To which purpofe (gentle keader,whofoevcr thou be) finer me to advcrtife thee of Tome few things,whereo f I think it requi f to thoufhouldefi take notice, fomewhat to excufe fuch faults, as in fuels world of mat- ter I could not but run into, being a man,andmore fubjefi to erre, then innumerable other men. i Firfi,
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