To what advantage and increase of Light it is performed, is not for so incompetent a Pen to say as writes this. Nevertheless, I doubt not but the discerning Reader will observe such Excellencies shining out in this, and other of this Great Author's Writings, as do greatly commend them to the Church of God, and will do so in after Ages, however this Corrupt and Degenerate Generation entertain them. They are not the crude, and hasty, and untimely Abortions of a Self-full, Distempered Spirit, much less the Boilings over of inward Corruption and Rottenness put into a Fermentation; but the mature, sedate, and seasonable Issues of a Rich Magazine of Learning, well digested with great exactness of Judgment. There is in them a great Light cast and reflected on, as well as derived from the Holy Scriptures, those inexhaustible Mines of Light in Sacred Things. They are not filled with vain, impertinent jangling, nor with a noise of multiplied futilous Distinctions, nor with novel and uncouth Terms foreign to the Things of God, as the manner of some Writers is ad nauseam usque. But there is in them an happy and rare conjunction of firm Solidity, Enlightening Clearness, and Heart-searching Spiritualness, evidencing themselves all along, and thereby approving and commending his Writings to the Judgment, Conscience, Spiritual Taste and Experience of all those who have any Acquaintance with, and relish of the Gospel.
To what advantage and increase of Light it is performed, is not for so incompetent a Pen to say as writes this. Nevertheless, I doubt not but the discerning Reader will observe such Excellencies shining out in this, and other of this Great Author's Writings, as do greatly commend them to the Church of God, and will do so in after Ages, however this Corrupt and Degenerate Generation entertain them. They are not the crude, and hasty, and untimely Abortions of a Self-full, Distempered Spirit, much less the Boilings over of inward Corruption and Rottenness put into a Fermentation; but the mature, sedate, and seasonable Issues of a Rich Magazine of Learning, well digested with great exactness of Judgment. There is in them a great Light cast and reflected on, as well as derived from the Holy Scriptures, those inexhaustible Mines of Light in Sacred Things. They are not filled with vain, impertinent jangling, nor with a noise of multiplyed futilous Distinctions, nor with novel and uncouth Terms foreign to the Things of God, as the manner of some Writers is ad nauseam usque. But there is in them an happy and rare conjunction of firm Solidity, Enlightning Clearness, and Heart-searching Spiritualness, evidencing themselves all along, and thereby approving and commending his Writings to the Judgment, Conscience, Spiritual Taste and Experience of all those who have any Acquaintance with, and relish of the Gospel.
