To the Reader

If there be anything of mistake, or defectiveness, found in this scheme; let it not be charged upon the accurate author, who lives at a very great distance from the press, and knows nothing of it: but upon one who was willing to help the reader, by giving him a short view of this excellent work, which for the matter, contrivance, spirit and manly eloquence of it, may commend itself (above the vulgar estimate) to the ingenuous; who upon a distinct reading of it all through with seriousness, cannot but desire a review, and be glad easily to find out the page where some remarkable thing did more especially affect his heart, that he may refresh himself again and again with it. Others may perhaps from a glance at the sweetness and variety of these contents, be invited to feed heartily upon the book itself; which if they do, no doubt but they will experimentally attest it to be in its proportion very agreeable to the subject it treats upon, truly delectable.