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Courteous Reader,
I hope these sermons will find as good acceptance with you, as the
former; I confess this encouraged me, when I considered how my
former treatises were received and embraced by the Lord's people in all
parts of this kingdom, as appears by many thousands of them which
have been printed and sold.
And though I have met with many discouragements from slanderers,
who have bent their tongues like a bow, for lies, as if I had done that
which was never in my thoughts, nor in my heart, much less in practice;
and though they had as little cause to report it of me, as of any man—
yet how confidently did some report, and others believe, those
abominable lies, as if I had lost my first love, and was returning again to
Egypt! Oh! what will prejudice and malice will not do?