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have conceived ſome Eſteem for them, it cannot be imputed to Vanity; ſince I ſhould have agreed as implicitly to your Opinion, had it been given in Favour of any other Man‘s Production. Negatively, at leaſt, I may be allowed to ſay, that had I been ſenſible of any great Demerit in the Work, you are the laſt Perſon to whoſe Protection I would have ventured to recommmend it.
From the Name of my Patron, indeed, I hope my Reader will be convinced, at his very Entrance on this work, that he will find in the whole Courſe of it nothing prejudicial to the Cauſe of Religion and Virtue; nothing inconſiſtent with the ſtricteſt Rules ofDe-
