obtam'd by the bounty of two of their Members • and gites wirhali 
fome £x4mpUs of their Mxperimems y Hijlories both of Nature and 
3 Ms^^h^ anfwered 5 Prop@fals reconadiendedj &c. Which done, 
he concludeth. That if any fhall yet think^ they have not ufefully em- 
ployed their time, he fhall be apt to fufpe(S):, that they underftand not, 
\^mi^m^Bm by SiJilJge^t md prefitahle hbmring ^hout Nature 5 and 
that fuch mm feem notcapable of being fatislied, unlefsthe Gentle- 
men of this Sei:htj immediately profefs to have found out the Squaring 
ef the Circle ^otii\t Fbilofofhers StoneyOt fome other fuch mighty No- 
things'^ which cniy argues the extravagance of the Expectations of 
fuch men. Mean time, the Author c^ttms, that/ince the Society pro- 
mifeS no Miracles.nor endeavours after thenis and fince their Progrefs 
ought to be equal and firm, by t^atural degrees, andthorow f^aH 
things^ as well as^re^/j going on leifurely, and warily, it is therefore 
fit, that they alone^and not others, who remfe to confider the nature 
oftheirn^^rit, and to partake of theffim^^^j ftiould be Judges by 
what fteps and vs^hat pace they ought to Iprocei^d. 
The Tir/r^ Part, isa^^erti^g both the Advantage mdi Innocence 
this Defign, in refped of all Profefioni^ and f)articularly of Reltghn 5 
and how proper, above others, it is for the prefcnt Temper of the /^ge^ 
wherein; we live : And this is donejto free it from the Cavil of the Idle 
a;id MalidoM % and from th^ Jealos^fies of Private Interefts y all 
which the:^i^/^^r thews to have nothing but Humor Bnvj ^Prejudice ^ 
or Miftake^ to bear themfelves upon. 
The promoting of Experiments^ according to the Model of the Rgj-- 
al Society y will be fo far from injuring Education ^ or from being dan- 
gerous to the f/^^/'z/^^/zV/Vy, thatit will both introduce many things of 
greater concernment and benefit to fopply the place of what may be 
laid afide 5 and be mainly conducive to recover that Divine Dignity 
of Humane Nature^ which confifts in the Knowledge of T ruth^ and the 
Doing of Good. 
Iht Fir(t years of Men being Tecured by this -new Experimental 
way 5 it is made out to all Prefepo'ns and Frd5iscal lives ^ that they 
can receive no ill Impreffions from it, but that it will be the moft be- 
neficial and proper ftudy for their Preparation and Dirc dion. Where- 
as other Learning is charged to confift in Arguing and Dij^uting ; and 
to be apt to make our Minds lofty and Romantic k 5 prefumptuous and 
obftinate 5 averfe from a pradical Courfe, and vnable to bear the dif- 
ficulties of hdion ; Propenfe to things, which are no where in ufe 
