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To the Reader.
boaſting, I perſuade myfelf, it had never ſeen the light. I value the man, I am ſorry for his conduct; and pray for his recovery. But want of time, as was hinted above, and fear of ſwelling the pamphlet, obliges me to forbear ſeveral other things I inclined to ſay.
That the ſame Spirit of God, and of glory, which enabled the worthy author of the following papers to contend unto death, for the royal prerogatives of his great Maſter, the only Head, King, and Lawgiver of his church, may in the peruſal of his following teſtimonies, enter into the ſoul of every reader, is the prayer and deſire of him who is
Thine in the work of the goſpel
of Chriſt Jeſus,
Stirling, Aug 14.
1738
EBEN, ERSKINE
