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 have conceived ome Eteem for them, it cannot be imputed to Vanity; ince I hould have agreed as implicitly to your Opinion, had it been given in Favour of any other Man‘s Production. Negatively, at leat, I may be allowed to ay, that had I been enible of any great Demerit in the Work, you are the lat Peron to whoe Protection I would have ventured to recommmend it.

From the Name of my Patron, indeed, I hope my Reader will be convinced, at his very Entrance on this work, that he will find in the whole Coure of it nothing prejudicial to the Caue of Religion and Virtue; nothing inconitent with the trictet Rules of