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to attempt any farther Recommendation of thefe Papers, as it wou'd be impoffible to effect it. If any thing can add to the Efteem they muft every where meet with, upon the Account of fo great an Author, it must be a ferious Perufal and Application of them. t

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Fter fo great a Name as that of Bishop Beveridge in the Title, it were as fuperfluous

to attempt any farther Recommendation of thefe Papers, as it wou'd be impoffible to effect it. If any thing can add to the Efteem they muft every where meet with, upon the Account of fo great an Author, it must be a ferious Perufal and Application of them.

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Thofe that read them with the fame Spirit of Candour, with which this Great Man always read the Works of others, and with the fame Spirit of Piety, with which he wrote his Own; will undoubtedly discover in them fuch a lively Idea of the Great Genius of the Author, and fo fenfibly experience the good Influ ence of them upon their Minds, as will more effectually engage their Approbation, than the highest Encomiums from another Hand.

The great Misfortune is, That those who have most need to be Inftructed and Reform'd, have no true Tafte or Relifh for Books of this Nature: Their Eyes are dazl'd with the glittering appearances of the Objects of Senfe, and their Hearts enflav'd to the Works of Darkness; fo that the Beams of Divine Light are but trouble fome