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Argument of these following Papers seems, in a great Measure, to be so very remote from that holy Profession, and from those Studies, to which I am, in a more particular Manner, obliged to dedicate my self, that it may, perhaps, be expected that I should give some Account of the Reasons which engaged me to set about it.

In the first Place therefore, I imagined, that if the several Boundaries of Ancient and Modern Learning were once impartially stated, Men would better know what were still unfinished, and what were, in a manner, perfect; and consequently, what deserved the greatest Application, upon the Score of its