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To the Christian Reader:

lthough no good Christian, or indeede ingenuous man, can doe anything lesse, than approove of such endeavours, as aime at the glory of God, and a Common good, especially when they are mannaged by a cleare warrant from Gods word. Yet for aymes and ends that men put to their actions being hidden in their hearts, there is no way to declare them, but by an honest profession of them, which is sufficient where wee are entertained but with that common charity one man is bound to yeeld another; But for the grounds and rule an action is wrought by, and the praise of it in that respect, there is another iudgement than that of charity to guide us by, namely, by proving it by the touch-stone of Gods word.

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