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 To the Reader. part I have here communicated upon the account of a bare acceptance onely what I have with many years paines, much reading, and great cots known. There is but one thing which I deire to be ilent in as touching the procee thereof; as for the thing it elfe to be prepared, what it is I have ele where in this Treatie expreed; and the preparing of that is indeed a thing worth of any ones knowing, and which perhaps hereafter I may make knowne to ome. I am of the ame mind with Sandivogius, that that fourth Monarchy which is Northerne, is dawning, in which (as the ancient Philoophers did divine) all Arts and iences hal flourih, and greater and more things hal be dicovered then in the three former. Thee Monarchies the Philoophers reckon not according to the more potent, but according to the corners of the world, whereof the Northerne is the lat, and indeed is no other then the golden age, in which all tyranny, oppreion, envie, and covetounee hal ceae, when there hal be one prince and one people abounding with love and mercy, & flourihing in peace: which day I  earnetly expect. In