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 the ame Book: But whether I have concurred in any thing with him, or contradicted him, I am not able to ay; having wanted leiure to perue his Work, by reaon of the Publick Buines, which came upon me in the end of the Year when I likewie undertood that a very Learned Friend and Brother had put into the Pres, Annotations upon all the Five Books of Moes. But by communicating ome of our Papers to each other, we found there would be no reaon, that either of us hould lay aide our Deign; but go on, in our everal ways, to make the Scriptures better undertood, by all orts of Perons: For all helps are little enough in this Age, which eems to take pleaure in being ignorant of the mot important Truths.

In which we are o particularly intructed by Moes, ''as by no other Author, not by all the Authors that are, or have known to be, extant in the World. For to him we owe the Knowledge of the beginning of the World; of the firt Parents of Mankind; the Inventers of Arts; the Original of Nations; the Founders of Kingdoms and Empires; the Intitution of Laws; the Fountain of Religious Rites; Yea, of all the ancient Mythology; and, which is mot coniderable, the'' means