Lastly, this shall direct all thy paths, and wisely conduct thee through this thorny life; it will cause thee think well, speak well, and live well, and furnisheth thee with knowledge, faith in God, humble dejectedness, spiritual wisdom, a well tuned conscience, a stooping will, heavenly thoughts, a right fraught memory, and ranks in order thy love, fear, joy, confidence, and all the rest of those subordinate faculties of the soul, bending them to pursue what is good, and stand stiffly armed against every evil. And as for being unspotted of the world, and to live unblameably, wronging neither thy self, nor any man, in soul, body, estate, name, or place, take this book for thy counsellor. Feast thine eyes then with a subject necessarily useful, and so exactly compiled, that it cannot but win esteem with every knowing man and gracious heart. For I must tell thee, divers friends of exquisite judgement, hearing that this work was in my ⟨image 4⟩hand, did earnestly solicit me to turn it to common good. Amongst the rest, a learned worthy understanding Divine, Master R. Bolton, having perused it, commended it unto me in these terms: Me thinks, in short and little room, it opens & represents the marrow and mysteries of that adored depth, the banks and bottom whereof, no wit of man shall ever be able fully to fathom and comprehend, while the world lasts, with more clear, exact, and compendious dexterity, then I have discovered in others, though they have also done excellently. And he persuaded with the Author, and since also with me, to let it pass abroad more publicly. Let then the more then ordinary parts of the workman, and of such as have commended it, as also the great pains of our pen-man, who hath told me, he had a long harvest for this handful of corn, together with the preciousness of the subject, and the goodly meeds thou mayest gain by it, let these persuade thee to read it, and that unpartially: In the mean ⟨image 5⟩time, my prayer and hearty desire is, that thou mayest right plentifully prosper by it, and so I rest,
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