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tion. If God ever appeared in any man, he appeared in him, as it appears by this Book. That a man who had not the benefit of his Anceſtors knowledg, being as I ſaid before, The firſt inventer of the Art of Communicating Knowledg to Poſterity by writing, ſhould be ſo high a Divine, and ſo deep a Philoſopher, ſeems to be a thing more of God, then of Man; and therefore it was the opinion of ſome[1], That he came from Heaven, not born upon Earth. There is contained in this Book, that true Philoſophy, without which, it is impoſsible ever to attain to the height, and exactneſs of Piety, and Religi-
