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My Lord, Have been long indebted both to your Lordhip, your noble Lady, and your hopeful Son Mr. Waton for your favours and good will towards me, I have therefore adventured (not by way of requital, but of acknowledgment) to preent this Theological Epitome to You, which is the mot exact and compendious of any that hath been yet done by Protetant Writers: I may ay of this Edition, as Philoophers peak of Nature that, It is neither deficient in necearies, nor Abundant in uperfluities: What was in the Latin Copy dark, I have cleared; and what was contracted, I have unfolded. How Rh