THE 



PREFACE 



T O T H E 



READER. 



HAving been de fired by my learned 

 and pious Friend Mr. Edmund 

 Elys, to draw upfuch a Periua- 

 five as I noiv prefent the Reader with - y 

 finding my felf well at leifure from o- 

 ther Buflnefs, and confidering that it 

 was fmt able to my Projejfion, and pre- 

 fent Condition-^ as being conducive to 

 my preparation for that change ', which 

 the pains and infirmities I laboured 

 under, feemed to threaten the near ap- 

 proach 



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