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HERE are many who either not able to buy books of  price, or not willing to carry about  them books of great bulk: therefore  have cast into this small portable Pocket book, the following Bundle of Exhortations, which, we hope, compendiously contain the chief substantials  practical religion; which are of  common use, and that people  most carefully mind, and be daily exercised in: We have advisedly  matters into small bounds, and  them in plain terms, so that we expect none will grudge either the price they pay for this schedule, or their pains in perusing it We would not have  Reader satisfy himself with once reading, or viewing it over, to please his curious or critical fancy anent what is written; it is not the feeding of fancy which the Author designs, but proposing duty and exhorting to the daily practice of it and frqeently tol ookto look [sic] over these exhortations, and to form your daily walk and conversation agreeably thereto.