Eben-ezer, or, A small monument of great mercy [electronic resource] : appearing in miraculous deliverance of William Okeley, William Adams, John Anthony, John Jephs, John ---, carpenter, from the miserable slavery of Algiers, with the wonderful means of their escape in a boat of canvas ... . Is worth a Six-pence to i Turk OTjen,Buaoa ChriaL ( were the Story gone )The Preface is a Penny-worth ^o*: = .The whole hath no Erratas or Mi»»kcJ,SaTc what the Printer and the Poet To the following NARRATIVE. ? Courteoui Reader., ID O readily agree with thee, that there isno fort of Writings more
Eben-ezer, or, A small monument of great mercy [electronic resource] : appearing in miraculous deliverance of William Okeley, William Adams, John Anthony, John Jephs, John ---, carpenter, from the miserable slavery of Algiers, with the wonderful means of their escape in a boat of canvas ... . Is worth a Six-pence to i Turk OTjen,Buaoa ChriaL ( were the Story gone )The Preface is a Penny-worth ^o*: = .The whole hath no Erratas or Mi»»kcJ,SaTc what the Printer and the Poet To the following NARRATIVE. ? Courteoui Reader., ID O readily agree with thee, that there isno fort of Writings more lyable to abufethan this of the Narrative : Lying much atthe Mercy of the Com^ofer to be Corrupted;and as much in danger to be mifimprovcd by theReader : The Reader therefore I am fure will de-mand ([(^oaf SecHrity that he is not impofed upon intheenf/iinj^ Relation-, and the Writer craves leavetoo, to malnum a modejtjeahufte^ leit the Rea-der fhould mifs the benefit that is defigned to himin it: The ylnthor will engage, and pawn hisCredit wrro xvrcn^ the Narrative, and he wouldtake fome care alfo that the Reader may not ivron^hmfelf. It is very true, that every Narrator is under a ilrong Temptatiofi to Seafon his Difcourfc to the ? - A GHJla ii The of the Time, not impofing a fcvcrc Lawupon himfcif, to Report what is true, but accom-inodating his Story to the Liquorilh appetite ofothers: I have obferved that/ywf AIe» are afha-mcd to Recount nuan and
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