Human Nature, in Its Fourfold State, of Primitive Integrity, Entire Depravation, Begun Recovery, and Consummate Happiness Or Misery, Subsisting in the Parents of Mankind in Paradise, the Unregenerate, the Regenerate, All Mankind in the Future State: In Se

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From what has been said, it is easy to conclude, that no pedantic apology, on the part of the author, for ap pearing in print, or fawning compliments to the cour toons reader, on the part of the prefacer, are to be ex pected. The truth is, both the one and the other are rather little arts, vailing pedantry and conceit, than evidences of modesty and good sense. It is of more use to recommend the perusal of the book to persons of all ranks and degrees, from a few suitable topics, than to shew wherein this edition differs from the first.

That all mankind, however difl'erenced by their rank and station in the world, have an equal concern in what was revealed concerning another and future world, will be readily owned; and it must be as readily granted, that however allowable it may be for men of learning and parts, to please themselves with fineness of language, justness of thought, and exact connection in writings upon other subjects; yet they ought not to indulge themselves in the same taste in discourses on divine things, lest they expose themselves to the just censure of acting with the same indiscretion, as a person in danger of famishing by hunger, would be guilty of, if he perversely rejected plain wholesome food when offered to him, for no other reason than the want of palatable sauce, or order and splendour in serving ilup.

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