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miscarried^ so good a Nurse have you been both to me 

 and it. This (dear Sir) I speak the rather, that I may 

 encourage you through the love of God to every 

 good and laudable purpose, not to grow weary 

 in your mind, notwithstanding that infinite corrup- 

 tion you meet in the wayes of men to stop your 

 course, but to continue still as heretofore you have done 

 in a course of patient well-doing, and to cast your 

 bread upon many waters ; for assuredly of this seed you 

 will reap an abundant Harvest in due time, if you faint 

 not ; And if this age should not resent so gratefully 

 as they ought, all the labours of your love, which you 

 have, and I know more and more intend to express by 

 the grace of God, for the universal good of the whole 

 Nation : yet Posterity perhaps may, when they shall 

 consider how instrumental you have been not only to 

 contribute to the building of many Colledges of Piety 

 and Learning ; but also to set forwards the best meanes, 

 that can be held forth to any industrious or ingenious 

 people, of livelihood and outward riches, by a reformed 

 way of Husbandry : Of which that of saving and multi- 

 plying Corn is one of the chief and most substantial 

 parts. 



As for the Invention formerly mentioned, of better 

 and more accomodate wayes of grinding, my purpose 

 is not (at present) to enlarge my self therein, nor men- 

 tion those very many uses for which they are to be 

 fitted; but only to intimate the goodness of these 



