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The Preface.

­fessors of either of these Sciences will not be offended with me for speaking the whole Truth; but if they should, They will thereby be Witnesses against themselves, that they justifie the Deeds of their Fathers.

And if I should be charg'd with Prophaneness, for mingling sacred things with secular, I will shelter my self under the Lord of the Sabboth, who was accused for doing Business on that day; and

Haud timeo si jam nequeam defendere Crimen,
Cum tanto Commune ——