To PETER Lord KING, Baron of Ockham, Lord High Chancellor of Great-Britain.
My Lord,
I shall make no Apology for addressing the following Sheets to Your Lordship, who lived in a long Intercourse of Friendship with the Author; and, like him, amidst occupations of a different nature, made Religion your voluntary Study; and in all your Enquiries and Actions, have shewn the same inflexible Adherence to Truth and Virtue.
I shall always reckon it one of the Advantages of my Relation to Sir Isaac Newton*, that it affords me an opportunity of making this publick acknowledgment of the unfeigned Respect of*,
My Lord,
Your Lordship’s
most obedient, and
most humble Servant,
Benj. Smith.
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