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The Motives which per∣swaded me to this.
I Observed that the wit and industry bestowed on the Scriptures, that of the Fathers and the more moderne was most in perspective and meditation, set the Pulpit apart, I meane* 1.1 Preaching, so as they made the Scripture the Sabbath of their pennes recreating in the divine fancies and contemplations, but I know none that made the sixe dayes worke of it, and reduced it into practice for the conduct and administration of action; David stiles it A Lampe unto the feet, not so much to the head, the contemplative part, as to the feet the active.
I observed too, that the fa∣••ous* 1.2 Politician brought his