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264 exactly conformable to the precepts of Christianity without any accommodation to the licentiousness and levity of the present age. I therefore look back on this part of my work with pleasure, which no blame or praise of man shall diminish or augment. I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth. Αὑτῶν ἐχ μαχὰζων ἁντάξι εἳη ἀμοισή.

Celestial pow'rs! that piety regard, From you my labours wait their last reward.