Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The Reader may judge from hence of fome out of many reafons, which induce the Editor, as a minilter of the efiablilhed Church, to publilh this Efl'ay without the incumbrances with which the tranflator had loaded it. There can be little doubt but that the notes have prevented many from perufing it, who might otherwife have been much profited by its contents: and it is hoped, that, now it is fent forth in its native drefs, and may be read without exciting either bigotry or difgufiz, it will become an object Of more general attention.
