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ii, whether any, or what part of them, should be made publick. This Treatise, I knew, he always designed for that purpose; and if God had been pleased to have granted him but a little longer life, he would have published it himself: And therefore though a considerable part of it wanted his last hand, yet neither could I be so injurious, to deprive the world of it, because it was less perfect than he intended it; nor durst I be so bold, to attempt to finish a Piece designed and carried on so far by so great a Master.

The first Twelve Chapters were written out for the Press in his Life-time. The Remainder hath been gather'd and made up out of his Papers, as well as the Materials left for that purpose, and the skill of the Compiler would allow: So that it cannot be expected, that the Work should be of equal Rh