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 needful Epitomies are in all Sciences, chiefly in Divinity, I need not write, if either we conider the hortnee of our time, or the largenee and multitude of Volumes, which have been written of this Subject, or the weaknee of our memories, or the fatidiounee that is begot in us by reading tedious and voluminous Dicoures, God who knows what is bet for us, hath epitomized all Practical Divinity into X Precepts, and our Saviour hath reduced thoe ten into two, and all that we can pray for, or againt, into ix heads or Petitions. The Traveller that deiers to be oon at his journeys end, will eek out the mot compendious way: He is an unwie Traveller that will clog himelf with ilver, if he can epitomize it into Gold, urely a weak Stomack wil better retain the mal quantity of an extract than the large draught of a naueating potion: He