CHRISTIAN READER,
Much of this treatise was preached before an auditory suitable to the subject, especially the former part of it. But many things are added, especially exemplifications of history and quotations. It is not my manner to fill sermons, either with histories or quotations. But I may have leave to put them with my notes, and so you have them here. It may be they may draw some to the reading of some things that may stick by them, which otherwise the very title of treatise would have caused them to reject. What you find suitable to you, take for your profit, and thank God: what there is else, be no offended at it, but leave it to others who may perhaps gain by something by it.
J.B.
