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 the Devils, and the like) are fale and ridiculous. Yet is the whole eteemed p acred, that upon the Cover thereof is incribed--Let none touch it but he who is clean. Not are the vulgar permitted to read it, but live and die in an implicite faith of what their Priets deliver; which indeed (as faith the learned Grotius) is a manifet argument of its iniquity: For that merchandie may jutly be upected, which will not be old, unles uneen: and though all men are not alike perpicacious in the knowledg, and dicerning of things, ome by arrogancy, and vain conceit of themelves, others by affection; Some by cutome, being drawn into error: yet hould we believe that the way to eternall life cannot be undertood by them, who without any repect of profit or preferment, eek it, ubmitting themelves, withall they have, to God, imploring his asitance, we hould in againt his infinite goodnes. Therefore (Chritian Reader) though ome, concious of their own intability in Religion, and of theirs (too like Rh