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virtue; but that there it is short, as became a memorial, but is here very large, solidly handling this necessary and noble subject, which is supported by all that has been piously wrote in the world. second book answers to the short Rule of Christian Life we gave there, which is here much dilated upon; and because virtue is the object of those books, the reader may observe, that by this word we do not only express the habit of virtue, but the acts and duties, to which this noble habit tends; but it is no new thing to call the effect by the name of the cause, and the cause by that of the effect.
