TotheprefentAge, andPofterity 

 Greeting. 



Lthough I had ranked the Hiftory of 

 Life^Death, asthe/afi, amongfi 

 my fix Monethly Defignati- 



om; yet I have thought fit, mrefpett 

 of the prime ufe thereof ; ( In which the 

 leafi Lop of Time wgbt to heefleemd 

 precious; to invert that Order , and to find it forth in the fe~ 

 condplace^ For Ihave hope, andwifb, that it my conduce to a 

 CommonGood; And that the Nobler fort ^/Phyficians 

 Will advance their thoughts; And not employ their limes Ml) 

 intheSordidneffe of Cures; Neither be Honoured for 

 Neceffity only ; But that they will become Coadjutors and 

 Inflruments of the Divine omnipotence and Cle- 

 mencie, in Prolqnging^Renewing the Life of 

 Man efpecially feeing I prefinbeit to be done by Safe, and 

 Convenient , and Civil wayej* though hitherto im-ajjayed. For 

 though we Chriftians doe continually afpvre, and pant after 

 fkLand of Promife let it milk a Token of Gods 

 favour t awards us , in our lourneyings throw this Worlds 

 wildernefle, to have our Shoots and Garments, 

 {Imeane, thofe of our Fraile Bodies) tittle worm, ormt- 

 pared. Fr. St. AtEAN. 



