To the CHRISTIAN READER.

THose Preservatives which are sove∣raignly useful at all times, cannot in times of common Contagion be repu∣ted uselesse, or unseasonable. Upon that account it is, that I have now adventured these few Meditations to a publike view. Surely, if ever there was a time of spiritual Contagion, such is this, whereinto Providence hath cast us at this day in this Nation; wherein the Plague of Here∣ticall Blasphemy is grown so desperately Epide∣mical, that many (once seemingly precious) souls are now infected with it. Alasse what sad tokens (I cannot say Gods, but the Devils Tokens) are now to be seen upon some of them, in whom not long since the Image of God to the judgment of Charity was hopefully conspicuous; in so much that without a miracle of mercy there is little Page  [unnumbered] hope of their Recovery. And who is there that hath the heart of a Christian, but out of a sad re∣sentment of so dreadful an Evil yet growing and spreading, would willingly contribute all possi∣ble Counsels and Endeavours for the healing of it? To this end it is that I have now communi∣cated this Antidote, which (as I am assured it can be hurtful to none, so) if it may be helpful to any, whether by way of Prevention, or Cure, I have what I aymed at, and shall rest,