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Rh great Grand-Father. I hall but take in Suidas his judgment and o ret atisfied, that he did not live onely before, but long before Moes: His words are thee, Credo Mercurium Trimegitum apientem Egyptium floruie ante Pharaonem.

In this Book, though o very old, is contained more true knowledg of God and Nature, then in all the Books in the World beides, I except onely Sacred Writ: And they that hall judiciouly read it, and rightly undertand it, may well be excued from reading many Books; the Authors of which pretend o much to the knowledg of the Creator, and Crea-