When I desired you to Print these excellent Papers, I told you they were recommended to me by a devout Person, who was a great Judge of Books of Devotion, having given the World one already, which had been well received in three Impressions, and would in time furnish'd it with more. And when I promis'd you to write a Preface before them, I knew not of any other Person that designed to do it, but since <I>I have received one from the hand of a worthy Gentleman of the Authors acquaintance, who had a desire to pay his respects to his pious Friends Memory in a Preface to his noble Remains. And indeed he had a much better title to write a Preface before them, than a stranger, who can only tell how greatly the Author of them wrote, but knew not how greatly he lived. <I>I will therefore intreat you to accept of his Preface for mine and to send me twenty Copies of the Book well Bound, as soon as you can, and at as easy rates as you can afford them. <I>I believe <I>I shall have occasion for a greater number, for the Book in every thing answers to its title, and as <I>I have received great delight and benefit in reading of it : So <I>I shall recommend it to persons of parts and pious inclinations, as <I>I shall find Opportunities. <I>I wish all Booksellers would employ the Press so much for Gods Honour, and the publick Good, as you do, for besides other Peices which are written with great force and eloquence to chastise the Vices of the Age, you have printed many good Books of Devotion, which made me desire that you should print this. Had the Author liv'd to Publish it, it would have come abroad with greater advantages ; for there art some places, which seem to require the hand of the same Architect who made them, to reform ‘em, but they are but few, and such as only need to be made a little more correct or plain, and we must not wonder that there are some uncorrect, and obscure Passages in a Book which is so full of Thoughts, and composed in Numbers, or numerous Periods, which tho of the freer sort, are not so easy for an Author to express his thoughts in, as plain and unconfined Prose.