A treatise concerning eternal and immutable morality . *. THE PREFACE. H E Author of the follow-ing Treatiie was the very-learned Dr. Ralph Cud-worth, whofe Name is fowell known to them that are ac-quainted with the beft Authors, as torender it needlefs to fay more in behalfof this Piece, than that it was compofedby the fame Perfon, that writ the TrueIntelleEiual Syjiem of the Author, being early prepared witha nice Skill in moft of the learnedLanguages, and having joined to aclear and folid judgment an inde-fatigable application to Study, be-gan foon to form vafl defigns forA 2
A treatise concerning eternal and immutable morality . *. THE PREFACE. H E Author of the follow-ing Treatiie was the very-learned Dr. Ralph Cud-worth, whofe Name is fowell known to them that are ac-quainted with the beft Authors, as torender it needlefs to fay more in behalfof this Piece, than that it was compofedby the fame Perfon, that writ the TrueIntelleEiual Syjiem of the Author, being early prepared witha nice Skill in moft of the learnedLanguages, and having joined to aclear and folid judgment an inde-fatigable application to Study, be-gan foon to form vafl defigns forA 2 the iv The TREFACE. the fervice of Religion : and infubferviency thereto to reduce hislarge treafure of learning to pro-per heads or fubje&s, which hepurpofed one time or other to im-prove into compleat difcourfes. H e lived in an Age, when thedifputes concerning Liberty and Ne-ceffttyi mingling with the Politicalfchemes of the Leaders of oppo-site Parties, helpd to caufe ftrongconvulfions in the State, and tofpread no lefs fatal an influenceupon th
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