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To the Right Honourable,

THE LORD

ROCKINGHAM.

My Lord,

I Have been long indebted both to your Lordſhip, your noble Lady, and your hopeful Son Mr. Watſon for your favours and good will towards me, I have therefore adventured (not by way of requital, but of acknowledgment) to preſent this Theological Epitome to You, which is the moſt exact and compendious of any that hath been yet done by Proteſtant Writers: I may ſay of this Edition, as Philoſophers ſpeak of Nature that, It is neither deficient in neceſſaries, nor Abundant in ſuperfluities: What was in the Latin Copy dark, I have cleared; and what was contracted, I have unfolded. How

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