These Considerations about Religion and Reason, deliver’d by a Person of an excellent Genius and Ability to consider the Nature of the things he is wont to discourse upon, being fallen into my hands, nor being forbidden to publish them; I thought the Subject so weighty, and the way of handling it both so discreet and solid, that I could not forbear recommending it to the Press, being fully persuaded, the Publick in general, as well as all Persons in particular that are concern’d for the safety both of Reason and Religion, and consequently for their Dignity as they are Men, and their Nobleness as they are Christians, will find sufficient cause to be pleased with the publication of it. To which I have nothing to add but that, whereas at the beginning of the following Discourse there is mention made of its being to consist of Two Parts; one, to shew, that a Christian need not lay aside his Reason; and the other, that he is not commanded to do so: The Author thought fit to keep that Paper, which concern’d the latter, from now accompanying the former, which seems the most seasonable, and likeliest to make impressions on that sort of Persons, whom he chiefly designs to persuade.