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To the Reader.
True Christian Friend, whoever thou art or maist be,
AS in the sequel both of this little Parcel, and of the therein-named Tract of Christ's Kingdom on Earth to come, I have endeavoured with the Woman of Samaria, to impart to thee, and all that truly fear God, as good news for thy whole spirit, soul and body, as I have received from Christ; and am perswaded in my own heart that I have been taught chiefly and remarkably from his Word and Spirit: Yet sith that there are (I conceive by the same means) setled apprehensions wrought upon my heart, of terrible things to come upon the World before that time; If such admonition thereof may be useful unto thee, or such Warning made profitable to any persons that hereafter God may (in mercy) bring out of the Mystical Babylon, or any other bondage of Satan, before the great ensuing Destruction come, and so by this or any such means, thou mayest receive benefit to thy soul, or promote it to others: and that I may self may at least be clean from the blood of all men (as the Apostle spake to those refractory Jews, his Brethren according to the flesh, Acts 18.6.) I have (under the Glory of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ, shortly to ap∣pear, as Tit. 2.13.) attained my end herein. And for what remains, I shall not cease to pray in the behalf of thee and others, that by the Blessing of God upon this poor endeavour, or any other good means, which he may in his good pleasure raise up to such blessed purposes: that so from all of us, to his most holy and glorious Majesty the due praise of all his glorious Grace may evermore be rendred through Jesus Christ, and by the Lord the Spirit. In whom I am and ever shall be thine, in all he hath, or may hereafter make me useful to serve thy soul as such.
MUNUS.
Septemb. 29. 1664.