Select discourses ... . To the Reader. HE intendment of this Preface is not tocourt the Reader into an high efteem ofeither thefe Difcourfes or their Author^(the Difcourfes will beft fpeak what theyare, and for the Author, his own Workswill praife him 5) but only to give a clear and plain Ac-count of what concerns This Edition, and withall toobferve Something concerning the Difcourfes them-felves and the Author of them, not unneceflary per-haps for the Reader to be acquainted with. jThe Papers now publifhed I received from the Au- on# r iS ndiEIthors Executor, Mr. Samuel Cradock (then Fellow o
Select discourses ... . To the Reader. HE intendment of this Preface is not tocourt the Reader into an high efteem ofeither thefe Difcourfes or their Author^(the Difcourfes will beft fpeak what theyare, and for the Author, his own Workswill praife him 5) but only to give a clear and plain Ac-count of what concerns This Edition, and withall toobferve Something concerning the Difcourfes them-felves and the Author of them, not unneceflary per-haps for the Reader to be acquainted with. jThe Papers now publifhed I received from the Au- on# r iS ndiEIthors Executor, Mr. Samuel Cradock (then Fellow ofBmmanuelCoWtgQyno^N Re&or of North- Cadbury in So-merfet-fhire,) whofe Beneficence tothepublick in im-parting thefe Treafures I thought worthy to be here inthe firft place gratefully remembred. Having taken a more general view of thefe, andfome other,Papers(divers of which were loofe and Mat-tered 5 not being written by the Author in any Book,)my Firft care was to colled: fuch as were Homogenealand related to the fselectdis00smit
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