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Gather up the Fragments that remain, that nothing be Loſt, John 6. 12. Was the direction of our Saviour to his Diſciples, after he had fed the Multitude. Which may well and uſefully be applied, to the Collecting and Preſerving the Accounts of the Lives of Good Men: Men who in their Day, have been eminently uſeful in thoſe Stations of Life, wherin God, by his good Providence, hath placed them. And this preſerving, by Publication, is the rather to be done, when themſelves do leave behind them, in Writing, an Account of their Lives, and of the ſignal Mercies of God to them therein: For
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