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The Planting of these CHURCHES, (which, having obtained Help from GOD, continue unto this Day) was one of the MAGNALIA CHRISTI, in that Age th• has passed over us: The History whereof has in a large Volume, of such a Title, been given to the World. There may be a Misinterpretation, if That should now be said; which has been often said, That as the Adversaries of ⟨p. 2⟩this Country, (which has many more than Twice seven times Seven Golden Candlesticks illuminating of it,) have heretofore, even to a Proverb, sped as Ill, as those that Adversaried the Ancient Piccardines, thus it has been also observed, That Remarkable Blessings from GOD have recompensed the Good Offices, that well disposed Persons have done unto it. Instead of making any such Observation, it is enough to say, There […] those in other Parts of the World, who wish •ell unto the Country, and have at Heart the Interests of it: A Country which one of the most celebrated Pens in Great Britain, could not mention, but in those Terms; A Place of as serious Piety as any I can hear of under Heaven. It is partly with an Eye to the Satisfaction of such Good and Just Men that an Account of the Churches here, and what they are, and what they do, is now to be exhibited; And, no doubt, One Effect of it will be, that it may bespeak a Continuance of Good Offices, from such as are the Friends of Pure and Undefiled Religion. And the Best of Protestants in Europe, will Judge, how far a People, whom a Great Man in an English Parliament vouchsafed once to call, The Best of Protestants, be worthy to be looked upon, as their UNITED BRETHREN.

The Planting of these CHURCHES, (which, having obtained Help from GOD, continue unto this Day) was one of the MAGNALIA CHRISTI, in that Age th• has passed over us: The History whereof has in a large Volumn, of such a Title, been given to the World. There may be a Misinterpretation, if That should now be said; which has been often said, That as the Adversaries of ⟨p. 2⟩this Country, (which has many more than Twice seven times Seven Golden Candlesticks illuminating of it,) have heretofore, even to a Proverb, sped as Ill, as those that Adversaried the Ancient Piccardines, thus it has been also observed, That Remarkable Blessings from GOD have recompensed the Good Offices, that well disposed Persons have done unto it. Instead of making any such Observation, it is enough to say, There those in other Parts of the World, who wish ell unto the Country, and have at Heart the Interests of it: A Country which one of the most celebrated Pens in Great Britain, could not mention, but in those Terms; A Place of as serious Piety as any I can hear of under Heaven. It is partly with an Eye to the Satisfaction of such Good and Just Men that an Account of the Churches here, and what they are, and what they do, is now to be exhibited; And, no doubt, One Effect of it will be, that it may bespeak a Continuance of Good Offices, from such as are the Friends of Pure and Undefiled Religion. And the Best of Protestants in Europe, will Judge, how far a People, whom a Great Man in an English Parliament vouchsafed once to call, The Best of Protestants, be worthy to be look'd upon, as their UNITED BRETHREN.