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Show The EPISTLE DEDICATORY. andtheWondersand Secrets of Nature; where, 3 uponI have taken the boldnefs to prefent your ' Lordlhip with many Notions of Experimental Philofophy,deduc'd fromAnatomicalDifFe€tions, wherein you may have a fine fight of the Noble Fabrick of Man's Body, in which you may fee your own Structure, and admire and adore the _ great Artifice of the Alhwife and Powerful Pro4 Equality, and in Sobriety in reference to your Perfon, in the profecution of Wholfome Rules prefervative of it. Your Life of Piety, Juf'tice, Temperanc e, Charity and Devotion, are very Exemplary, as ou are a Perfon of Honor and Fortune, and will allure Others to conform to fo excellent a Pattern, Whichif generallyimitated,would con4 toplal't, and pay a duty of the greateI't Thanks ferve Humane Society, and prove a great BICF< and Obedienceimaginable to His molt Glorious Name for His VVondrous VVorks, Evidenced fing to our Nation. Your evennefs and fweetnefs of Temper free in Comparative Anatomy, in Viewing the Parts from all extraVagancy of Pafsion,do highly oblige of Varieties of Animals, how they partake Simii litude with, and Illuf'trate thofe of a Humane body, which is very ufeful to the advancement of Natural Knowledge, fubfervient to more Di4 Vine and Chril'tian Philofophy, confif‘ting in' all Perfons that have the honor to conVerfe with many falutary Precepts and fober di&ates of re&i4 tied Reafon C rendring us Happy) Which your . Lordlhip hath highly practiced and made you ‘ very valuable in the opinion of VVife men. As you have confined your Appetites (in which Licentious perfons are irregular) Within your Lordlhip. Your Generous and Hofpitable difpofition, CexprefFed in your Noble and Arni< cable Entertainments ) do invite and treat your Friends with all Civility and Kindnefs. I cannot but Congratulate your Lord in ‘ your molt Excellent and Accomplilhedfhip Lady, f1 Meet~help for you, being as near akin to you in Vertue, as Perfon, and gives a mof't kind re- C€ption to all your Friends, which her Lady- become properinl'truments, as Incentives to fup4 finp entertains with a pleafant Afpeét, kind Lan - guage, and moft endearin Civility, which renders YOUI‘ Houfe a Paradi e to all your Acquain' ply our Necefsities, and preferve Humane na‘ Wicca and Strangers, that have the happinefs to due bounds, inf'tituted by Nature, whereby they [UFC. Your Lordfhip hath made good in a great degree the primary obligations of Nature in your Piety to your Maker by {peaking Obedience to His mol't Sacred Commands, and in Jufl'ice to your Neighbor in the obfervance of the Law Of ' Equality Converfe in it. _I take the boldnefs to prefent your With this mean Paper C as a {mall Tok Lordflu'p en of mv mofi humble Duty and mofl: affectionate E- eems) which I have affixed to the Cha ter of eeing, Whiehlhumbly beg your Lord ip to perufe, as a moPt Noble Subject, Dedicated to you, |