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Reader,

Hat thou hast no sooner enjoy'd this long expected Edition, thou can'st not justly blame either the Author or my self:'' Not my self, for I could not Publish the Book before I had it, nor the Author, because many unexpected Occasions drove off his Mind to other Matters, and interrupted him in his present Design, insomuch that he was snatch't away by Death before he had quite finished it. But tho' the learned World may very well lament the loß of so able and ingenious a Writer, yet as to this present point, if that may mitigate thy Sorrow, in all likelihood this Book had not seen the light so soon, if he had lived; so many emergent Occasions giving him new Interruptions, and offering him new Temptations to further delay: Indeed it had been desirable that it might have had the Polishing of his last Hand, as the Peruser of his Papers signifies in his last''