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Show The Epijlle 'Dedicatory. mon Methods , that your Allowance and Ap· probation oft~e Defign o~this Treatife, wil~ at leafl: preferve It from be11;1g condemned With. out reading ; and will prevail to have thofe Parts a little weighed, which might otherwife, perhaps, bl3 thought to de(erve ·no Confidera. tion, for being !Dmewhat out of thu common road. The Imputation of Novelty, is a terribk charge amopgfr tho(e who judgu ofMen'sHeads, as they do of their Perukes, by the F afhion ; and can allow none to be ri'ght, but the recei. ved Dothines. Truth fcarce ever yet carried it by Vote ~my where, at i~s firfr appearance: NewOpinions are always (ufpetl:ed, arid ufually oppofed, without any other Reafon, but becaufe they are n<;>t already; common. But Truth,like ~<;>~p, i~ hfi~t~L~~fsi?,/or ~eih~ newly b~ou~ht ~Jtt,t of.~~e~·Wt· ~ri~ .. t'naf Jl9d. ¥xamtna~IOn .mu:l'l: g~v:e It pnee,- ~nd, not any ant1ck Falluon: And tho)lgh 'it be: ~~fyet c1.hrent by the pub. 1:i£k:ilamp;l~-~t it rl:iay, for a~ that, be as old as :Nature, ·ana "i s certainly not the lefs genuine. X <?.Ur lord(hip can ~v:e g~eat and convincing tnfiance~ Of this, wheqevei ·YOU pleafe to oblige the Publicli with tome of :thofe large and com. p~~benfive ' Dif~ove~ies, Y,¥?- have made, of Truths hitherto unknown, :unlefs to fome few, to-whom ipur L~1:~fl1ip ha~ been plcafed not w)lolly to ~conceal tpem. This alone were a f~1fficient R~afon, wtre there no 'ot:her, why I lliOuld Dedicate this piece to your Lordiliip ;; and its having fmne little Correfpondence w~th fOJ11S parts o£ that nooler and vafi Syfiem of th~ 'Sciences, Y:?ur Lordlhip has made fo new, exa&:, , , , and and infirutl:ive a Dr~ught of, I thin.k it G1oJyenough, if your Lord(hip pe~mit >1:110 to bo:j.f}, that ' here and there I ll'lve faUeo i.o,to fomo Thoughts t1ot who.llyi,diff€r,ent froa1 yau.rs• If your Lordflllp think fit;.; (that b~ yotw encouragement this ihould ap£leav in the W odd, 1 hope it may be a. Reafon, fome time or othy\', to lead your Lordlbip, ~r.th«r ; and yolJ will ah low me to fay ,That you here give the W Ql)ld an earne{l: of fomethiog, that,if rhey can bGar with this, will be truly worth thmr e..~pocration. Thi~, my .Lord, l11ews. what a PrcfQnt I h.kre_ make tO -your Lordiliip; }U!l CucH as the pQor Man does to ~is rich and great No~bai.U',_hy .whom the :Basket ·of Flowc:rs; or Fruit, · is, il<I>t' ill takon, ·though he him ore ·plcnty~of hi~ p-~n growth, and ' in much .greater · pcrmetiorl. • W o)thlcifi; 'Fhing&' i:eccive 1 a ;value,· w bCfll th~i:Jy_ -ar~ rna de the Offerings of.Re'fpetl:, Efr~m,;~nd Giatif.u~ Thefc you have given me fo mighty and pecu. liar Reafons to have in the highel1 degree for your Lord01ip, th~t cif tlloy can add a price to what they go aJpng ~~th,proportionable to their own Greatnefs, I can with Confidence brag, I here ma'ke yourLordfl1ip the richcl1 Prefent you ever rec.;civeq. :This I am fure, I am under the greatel1 Obligation to feck all occafions to acknowlccjge, ~ Ion~ Train of Favours I have re ·ceived Hom you:C Lord01ip; Favours, though great and important in thcmfelves, yet made much more fo by the Forwardnefs, Concern, and Kindnefs, and other obliging Circum fiances, that never failed to accompany them . . To all this ·you are pleafed to add that which gives yet |