

To the Reader. 



Y defire is to inform and afTure you, 

 that fhall become my Reader, that in 

 that part of this following difcourfe, 

 which is onely narration, I either fpealc 

 my own knowledge, or from the teftimony of fuch 

 as dare do any thing, rather than fpeak an untruth. 

 And for that part of it which is my own obferva- 

 tion or opinion, if I had a power I would not ufe 

 it to force any mans aflent, but leave him a liberty 

 to difbelieve what his own reafon inclines him to. 



Next, I am to inform you, that whereas D"". 

 Donne's life was formerly printed with his Sermons, 

 and then had the fame Preface or Introdu6lion 

 to it ; I have not omitted it now, becaufe I have 

 no fuch confidence in what I have done, as to ap- 

 pear without an apology for my undertaking it. 



I have faid all when I have wiflied happinefle 

 to my Reader. 



I. W. 



