PREFACE. 



IX 



Upon the whole, however ill this work may be generally received, 

 I have no reafon to complain of the ingratitude of the public, as I 

 frankly own that it was chiefly for my own lake that 1 compofed it, 



Condo et compono quae mox depromere poflum j 



I lay up, like the bee, for the winter— —of old age, which is co- 

 ming faft upon me, when 1 could not have made fuch a collection 

 as this ; but, even then, I hope to be able to enjoy it, and to ipend 

 the laft years of my life in the ftudy, of all others the moft befit- 

 ting a man who is foon to enter into the world of fpirits, 1 mean, 

 the contemplation of the Great Spirit, and of the Wifdom, 

 Gooduefs, and Power, manifefted ia his Works. 



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