THE CONCLVSION. 



Nd now I hope, I may confidently fay, I have been 

 as good as my word : and I doubt not, but my 

 Reader will finde it fo,if he fpend but halfe as much 

 time in perufing thefe two treaties, as the compo- 

 fing them hath coft me. They are too nice (and in- 

 deede, unreafonable) who expect to attainc with- 

 out paines, unto that, which hath coif others, yeares of toylc* Let 

 us carefully puiiuethe hidden bounties, he hath treafured tipforus. 

 Let them remember the words cf holy ^,that wifedome it not fouud 

 in the hand ofthofcjhat live at their eafe.Let them caft their eyes on e- 

 very fide roundabout them, and then tell me, if they meet with any 

 employment, that may bee compared to the attaining unto thefe, 

 and fuch like principles; whereby a man is enabled togoverne 

 himfelfe underftandingly and knowingly, towards the happinefle, 

 both of the next life and of this ; and to comprehend the wifemans 

 theme ; what is good for a man in the dajes of his vanity, whiles he play- 

 etb the granger under thefunne. Let us feare Gods Judgements. Let 

 us thanke him for the knowledge he hath given us : and admire the 

 excellency of Chriftidn Religion; which fo plainely teachcth us 

 that, unto which it is fo extreme hard to arrive by nauirall meanes. 

 Let us blefle him, that we are borne unto it. And let usfing to him ; 

 That it is he, itvh o pre ache th his doftrinetojacoh, and gi-veth his loft es 

 to Jfrael. He hath not done the My to allnations 5 norhath hee ntitnife- 

 fled his fecret truths unto thein^ 



BUt before J cut of this thread , which hath coftmee fomuch 

 paines to fpinne out to this Length , I mult crave my Readers 

 leave, to make fome ule of it, tor my O' ne behoofe. Hitherto my 

 difcourft hath beene directed to him : now I (hall entreate his pa- 

 tience-" that I may rtflift it in a word or two upon my ftlfe. And aa 

 I am lure I have profited my feli'e not a little, by talking all this 

 while to him, that obliging me to pulifli my conceptions with more 

 care, and to range them into better order , then while* they were 

 but rude mcditatk ns within my owne brt.it ; (o I hope, that * little 



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