After the Author had begun the Second Part of his Christian Virtuoso, and made some Progress in it, which he designed to continue till he had Compleated it; he was obliged to leave the Country, where he enjoyed some Leisure, and to remove to London; where Sickness, and Business, and a Multitude of Visits he could not avoid receiving, did so distract him, that these Remora’s, added to the Fertility of the Subjects that remained to be Treated of, which he found much greater than he was at first aware of, made him lay aside the Materials he had prepared for the Second Part, to a fitter Opportunity, and comply with the Occasions he had, to publish some Tracts that required more haste. And ‘tis for the like Reasons, that having at present some other Essays of a quite differing Nature in the Press, he is obliged to postpone his resuming and finishing the Second Part of the Christian Virtuoso (which will require more Sheets than the former) for some longer time; thô yet to Comply with the Solicitations of the Printer, he consents both to let the First Part come abroad, and (to make the Book of a more decent size) add to it, by way of Substitution, a Discourse that is of Affinity enough to the other, upon the account of some of the Points it handles, and more upon that of its Scope; and that will not be Ill received, if it have the good fortune to find the Publick as kind to it, as Private Perusers have been.
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