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Hriſtian Reader, I finding in this latter Day, the Love of the  ſhining, in ſome meaſure, with its pleaſant Beams in my Heart, warming my Affections, enflaming my Soul, not only to give a ſpiritual Echo in Soul Duty, to ſo great a Lover as my Saviour is, whoſe tranſcendent Love paſſeth Knowledge, Eph. 3. 19. But alſo the loving and wiſhing well to all Sion's Heaven-born Children; for I find in this Day, many poor Souls toſſed to and fro, ready to be carried away with every Wind of Doctrine, by the Sleights of Men, and cunning Craftineſs, whereby they lie in wait to deceive, Epheſ. 4. 14. And that there are ſo many Foundations to build upon that are falſe, upon which much Labour is ſpent in vain, that Men are not ſpeaking the Truth in Love; neither are they growing up into him in all Things, which is the Head Chriſt, Epheſ.4.15. there cannot be a growing in Chriſt; without an Union in him, all that we do is curſed: Thou wilt find therefore, Gentle Reader, in this enſuing little Treatiſe, if the Lord is pleaſed to bleſs the Reading