To the Reader. ■ 
for the difeovery of the Works of God and 
the Operations of Nature, rve cannot but en-^ 
tertain pregnant hopes, that notmth(land¬ 
ing all the oppofitions of Lazy and Envious 
Men, a good harveft of confderable and 
ufeful knowledge will be reaped in time,and 
thence good fore of fiuitful feed be mini' 
fined for large fuccefjive crops of the fa?pe 
kind, for the magnifying of our great Cre-f. 
atour, and the enobling and benefiting of 
Man-kind, ^ ' ■. 
’THE 
