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The Author to the Reader.
Christian Reader,
AFter the foregoing adress, I need not put thee to much more trouble: only I shall say; That he must needs be a great stranger in our Israel, or sadly smitten with that epidemick plague of indifferency, which hath infected many of this Generation, to a benumming of them, and rendering them insensible, and un∣concearned, in the matters of God, and of their own souls; and sunck deep into the gulfe of dreadful inconsideration, who seeth not, or taketh no notice of, nor is troubled at the manifest and terrible appearances of the unexpressibly great hazard, our all, as Chri∣stians, in this life, is this day into. I meane the mystery of the Gospel of the grace of God, wherein the exceeding riches of His grace, in his kindness towards us, through Christ Jesus, hath been shoune: VVe have enjoyed, for a considerable time, a clear and powerful dispensation hereof, in great purity and plenty; but Alas! is it not