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Haturally demandeth the efteem and regard of all the true ftiends to religion and virtue.

For theſe valuable and excellent purpoſes, may the God of all grace Pour forth his holy Spirit upon all orders and degrees of men in theſe nations, that, as they bear the honourable name of Chriſtians, they may adorn the dottrine of God our Saviour in all things; and, b ng jilledl with t he knoulege— his will in all wiſdlom and ſpirit ual An derſtandi ng, may walk worthy of the Lord unto all Bleafing; being fruitful in ebvery good Work.

I may be thought perhaps to have inſiſted too lare) upon theſe things. But I cannot but think, that one of the prin- cipal things which ought to be propoſed in books written in defence of Chriſtianity, ſhould be not merely to promote the ſpeculative believe of it, but to engage men to that which is the main deſign of its excellent doctrines, as well as precepts, a holy and a virtuous practice.

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