Dedication

this Discourse; that being the Atheism most in fashion.

Nor is anything more pertinent to the design of the discourse intended concerning God's Temple; which importing worship to be done to him, requires first a steady belief that he is.

And surely the [illegible] inscribed of old, as Plutarch tells us, on the Delphic Temple; signifying (as, after diverse other conjectures, he concludes it to do) 'You do exist,' is an inscription, much more fitly set in view, at our entrance into the Temple of the Living God, whose name is I AM.

Amidst the pleasant entertainments of which Temple (made more intimate to you than human discourse can make it) may you spend many happy days in this world, as a preparative, and introduction to a happier eternity in the other. Therefore he is under many and deep obligations, by any means, to contribute to his uttermost, who must (especially in the offices relating to this Temple) profess himself,

My Honoured Lord, Your Lordship's most humbly Devoted Servant John Howe.