The Printer to the Reader. T He Dedication of this Work baving been made by the Auther to the Divine Majesty only, how should we now presume to interest any mortal man in the patronage of it? Much less think we it meet to feek the recommendation of the Mafes, for that which bimfelf was confident to have been infpired by a diviner breath than flows from Helicon. The world therefore shall receive it in that naked fimplicity, with which be left it, without any addition either of fupport or ornament, more than is in cluded in it felf. We leave it free and unforestalled to every mans judgment, and to the benefit that he shall finde by perufal. Onely for the clearing of fome passages, we have thought it not unfit to make the common Reader privy to Some fem particularities of the condition and difpofition of the Perfon. Being nobly born, and as eminently end ued with gifts of the minde, and having by indutry and happy education perfected them to great height of excellency, whereof his [2] that Fellor made answer, It is a good work, if it be fprinkled with the bloud of CHRIST: Otherwise then in this refpect he could finde nothing to glory or comfort himself with, neither in this nor in any other thing. And thefe are but a few of many that might be faid, which we have chosen to premife as a glance to fome parts of the ensuing Book, and for an example to the Reader. We conclude all with his own Motto, with which he used to conclude all things that might feem to tend any way to his own honour; Lefs than the leaft of Gods mercies. The Lord, The Dedication. they came, |