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To the Religious, Learned and Ingenuous Reader.
EPistles to the Reader by way of Preparation are properly pla∣ced in the front of a Book; but those by way of Recollection follow best in the Reare thereof. If you have had the Lei∣sure and Patience to peruse this Book, you deserve the Name of a Reader indeed; and I do as heartily wish, as charitably hope Thee Qualified with those three Epithets wherewith I have intitled thee. I must now accost thee, in the Language of the Levite to the Tribes of Israell.
CONSULT, CONSIDER, and GIVE SENTENCE.
Deal truly and unpartially betwixt me and the Animadvertor, please thine owne Conscience, though thou displeasest us, and ad∣judge in thy selfe, where neither of Us, where both of Us, where one of Us, which one of Us, is in the right. Onely this I will add, for my Comfort, and thy better Confidence in reading my Book, that, according to the received Rule in Law, Exceptio firmat Regu∣lam in non-Exceptis, it followeth proportionably, that, Animadversio firmat Regulam in non-Animadversis. And if so, by the Tacite Con∣sent of my Adversary himselfe, all other passages in my Book, are allowed Sound and True, save these few, which fall under his re∣proof; and how justly, I submit my Cause to thy Censure, and thy Person to Gods keeping, remaining
Thine in Jesus Christ. Thomas Fuller.
Cranford Moate-House.