When first these Discourses were sent to the Press there was neither Epistle nor Preface design’d, but it being a thing altogether uncouth and unusual; I was unwilling to affect any thing of singularity, and in this affair (to be so great a friend to the Bookseller and Printer, as) to follow the common Road.
If there is any thing in the Publisher that thou maist call folly or presumption it was done through ignorance or inadvertency; and since I acknowledg my fault, I hope you will pardon it.
As for the following Discourses they are so admirably well pen’d, and their contexture so smooth and even that they are beyond all imaginable praise. It would argue nothing less than presumption to speak in their behalf, and it needs nothing more than the name of its Author to Recommend it to the World.
Farewel.
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