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top rofeſs Chriſt, condemn the Pope, addict our ſelves to the true Philoſophy, lead a Chriſtian life, and dayly call, intreat, and invite many more unto our Fraternity, unto whom the ſame Light of God likewiſe appeareth? Conſider you not at length how you might begin with us, not only by pondering the Gifts which are in you, and by experience which you have in the Word of God, beſide the careful Conſideration of the Imperfection of all Arts, and many other unfitting things, to ſeek for an amendment therein; to appeaſe God, and to accommodate you for the time wherein you live. Certainly if you will perform the ſame, this profit will follow. That all thoſe Goods which Nature hath in all parts of the World wonderfully difperfed, ſhall at one time altogether be given unto you, and ſhall eaſily disburden you of all that which obfcureth the Underſtanding of Man, and hindereth the working thereof, like unto the vain Epicides, and Excentrick Aſtronomical Circles.

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