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 Rump aembled, and tinking in Conort. If you think this econd Edition might be pared, I mut borrow my Apology from their Sermons, who were Preachers to the Rump; which, for the mot part, were nothing but Repetition and Tautology, or a Rump of taler Mutton hah’d by ill looks, where all the parts being minced exceeding mall, lot their order and ditinction. And where that which was the Preface would as well have erved for the Concluion, and both the Preface and Concluion would equally have pat for the Middle of the dry Dicoure. If you ask me, Why being dead and rotten, the unavoury remembrance of them is preerved by thee Papers: It is, becaue whilt they lived, they were a kind of Purrezes, whoe buines was to uck the blood of the Nation, and to break our leeps by tinging; and who never