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To the Reader.
great Grand-Father. I ſhall but take in Suidas his judgment and ſo reſt ſatisfied, that he did not live onely before, but long before Moſes: His words are theſe,[1] Credo Mercurium Triſmegiſtum ſapientem Egyptium floruiſſe ante Pharaonem.
In this Book, though ſo very old, is contained more true knowledg of God and Nature, then in all the Books in the World beſides, I except onely Sacred Writ: And they that ſhall judiciouſly read it, and rightly underſtand it, may well be excuſed from reading many Books; the Authors of which pretend ſo much to the knowledg of the Creator, and Crea-
- ↑ Suidas
