tbe Difcourfe leemed to call for , and (on Cuch occafions) 
had recourfe to Uiere%e(Stive Authors. : lq . . 
Thofe who delire a iullei''d<2count i3)f ^f^^ thmgs ias I- 
have tut briefly touched j may, for that purpofe, con- 
lult Viet a ^ Oughts ed, Harriot^ Cartes.Slt^JitiSi and others; 
and ^in EngUfh ) Mrii J^r/yi who hath publiftied a 
Corapleat Volume of ^/g^l^ '{with the Appurtenaiices- 
thereuntp) in^TN^oparts^-^^^A^ ; ' >v/: 
But mv 4efign be^g^y tp- tria<:^ this oi jinaly ticks (as 
the Gr(?^>^x caird '\X,\i;>t jil^ebra /as the Ar^bs) from its 
firft Original /as near as I cpuU) by the feveral Steps 
\vbere>y^it bath ^procec^ed ; MirRe Ey w^s chtefty on the 
fe veral 4dva>^ee? :\^^ tin^eit bath made,- 
oitiittiiig , ,%\th^ niofl:partvthe Accommodations there* 
of to particular Subjeils. m <^riUi7 i'ji:H) . . 
Aad herein I have endeavoured, all alcuxg, to bejuft 
to every one ^,_A^cribing, as ne^r asJ[. coaic|h:^^^y^^^P 
of ardvance td its own AuthdrV or at leaA 'to^'jd^ 
ancient of thole in^^liomj fpundit,,,-r-t,^ Y>v'ra 
If I have any where miffed of ' tliiis Jfalci-lb^^ 
latter what was due to feme former Writer j ) it is eitker 
becaufe I had not read the more a^cientf i or did potrthere 
heed it wheii I fo read; 6r^ at JeiJli « did Aot; fememter it, 
when 1 was^Writijig, .^ Arid^ recti- 
fied, 4n what I have any^^^^^ 
There may yet perhaps (notwithftanding allmy care) 
be fome diffi^uity to. iat^^^^^ ^11 Readers,^ as to what I 
have, or whJatX J^VQ' ^Wl^P may 
tbini< there ^ith'^Qxtx^ 4out>4e$ ^here 
are fo) which might deferye' to^b'c taken notice of ; or 
but briefly, touched, wKitk might have deferved a fuller 
dikoiirfe^i and fome things inferted, which (in their 
©pinion) migli t have been fpaxed^ or teeded not to have 
besn.iofu#*^ad|ed/ ;j^aius :: 
But as to fuch things/ r mdff bS^x to fea^ my 
felt to the Readers Candor 5 or Jeave the Readers them« 
felves 
