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 me. Firſt, thou muſt know that every man cannot be excellent, yet may be uſeful. An iron key may unlock the door of a golden treaſure; yea iron can do ſome things that gold cannot do.

Secondly. Remember it is no haſty reading, but ſeriouſly meditating upon holy and Heavenly truths, that makes them prove ſweet and profitable to the ſoul; it is not the bees touching of the flowers that gathershoney; but her a-biding for a time upon them and drawing; out the ſweet; it is not he that reads moſt but he that meditates moſt, that will prove the choiceſt, ſweeteſt, wiſeſt and ſtrongeſt Chriſtian,

Firſt, I believe that there is a God; an incomprehenſible perfect being, a Spirit infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in his being, wiſdom, power, holineſs, juſtice, and truth; having his being of himſelf, and giving being to all things.

2dly, I believe that the living and true God is but one; and that in the unity of the Godhead there is a Trinity of perſons, Father, Son, and Holy Ghoſt; and that there three are but one God, the ſame in ſubſtance, equal in power and glory. This is the revealed myſtery, which I do believe, but cannot comprehend.

3dly: I believe that this God, who was