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The Preface.

from ſuch Accounts, may beſt be gathered, by the Reader, the Man’s particular State, Exercise and Growth in the Work of Reſtoration, out of the Fall and Degeneracy: And, in the Reading thereof, be not only excited to Bleſs the Name of the Lord, on his behalf; but alſo gain ſome direction from the Path, ſo fairly tract out, and ground of Hope; that by being Faithful, they may likewiſe attain to the ſame good Experience.

There is not with me any doubt, but ſomething of this kind may be the Lot of many, into whoſe Hands this Treatiſe may happen to come; for that they will herein meet with variety of Exerciſes, and the Providences of God therein, all related with great ſtrength and plainneſs of Speech: Our Deceaſed Friend Thomas Ellwood, having been a Man whom God had endued with ſingular Abilities, both as a Man, and as a Chriſtian; which is evident, not only from this ſhort Account of his Life, which was written by himſelf, and by the Supplement added here-

unto;