7 %ehivEof Mr. RAY. 63 
Creation. The Rudiments of which 
Book were laid in fome College Lec- 
tures (called Common-places) which 
he, when Fellow of ‘Trinity ^ had 
read in the College Chapel. And 
having much refined and enlarged thefe 
Common-places, and fitted them up 
for a convenient Volume, he fent the 
Copy to his old trufty Friend Dr. 
Tancred Robinfonf on March the 3d 
1690, to be dilpofed of by him as 
he thought fit ; who foon put it into 
the Bookfeller’s Hands, and Five 
Hundred of them were accordingly 
printed and publifhed in the Year 
1691. 
This Book was fo well received by 
the Public, that it foon got univerfal 
Applaufe, and the Imprefilon was 
prefently fold off, fo that it came to 
a much greater Imprefilon the Year 
following, and afterwards to other 
Editions 
