The Preface to 



proach of, and might pojjlbly be in 

 fome meafure ufeful and beneficial to 

 others : I was eafily induced to comply 

 with his Requeft^ and to employ thofe 

 Intervals 1 had of eafe or remiffion of 

 patn y m Meditations upon this Subject* 

 I do not pretend to any thing new, or 

 not delivered by others. Practical Di- 

 vinity and Morality are fuch beaten 

 Subjects, and have exercifed the Wits 

 and Pens of fo many thinking Men, 

 that there is nothing of this Nature can 

 be faid or written, which hath not al- 

 ready been fo. But becaufe not every 

 Man, nay fcarce any Man, hath read 

 all that hath been written upon this, 

 or any other SubjeB, fomethmg new to 

 every Reader may perchance occur in 

 this Writing : And yet if there does not, 

 it may not be unprofitable Jo read the 

 fame things over again, as the Apoftle 

 in effeft faith , Philip, iri. i. But to 

 do every Man right, I muft acknow- 

 ledge 



