Therefore, jout'ofjtogikrd ior the grAird, kadiiig truth
of ckariAtAuity, a«d is 'coa|>li4nce with Mr* H-r^il's
uarnfftinirtnty^ [Fin. Stroke, f>. 45,] Ifeitd my fi^rmon
into the world, iqNDti the following reaTonahfe cofidi-
tkcncs : ( 1 J That I (hall be allowed to puhjifli it, as I
preached it a yi6ar ^igo in my church ; namely, with
aitdituins in hntcketi^ to make it at once ^fitUer check
to pharafaifm«M!iid 2kfiniJktng<}itA, to antinoniianiihi ;
(2) That the.hiSrgeft addition fiiall be in favour of
free grace : (3) That no body Aall accufe me of for-
gery , ior thtts udding my prefent light to that whkh I
had formerly ; and lor thtn briJigiBg ont of my. little
xreafare of experience things new and aid : (4} That
thae prefs ihall not g^roan with the charge of iifinge-
nuity^ M I throw into ootes fon^e angakrded expref-
^o&, wJa^h I 4or»erJly ufed -without fcrupk, and
which SB^ noFO enlightened coq^ctefiice does not fuf-
ier oqe ito.;ttfe alc! rprefent : (5). That my opponent's
cailidtprisit my ioTttonvW^ill procure nse the pardon
of the public, for prefenting them with a plain, Slunt
difcourfe, compofed for an audience chiefly made ar
cf colliers and ruftics : 45id'laiU^, that as I uuderftar
cngliih a little ii^ttcr than I. did twelve years ago,
&all b/e fiec^kted to re^ify a few ffe«ch sdion
rMichfi And in my old manufcript ; and to<mne^ r
thoughts a little more lih^ «ti Englifhman, where i
do it without tbe len(k mifrej^refentatiou of the (>
If thefie conditions appear anreafonable to t!
who will have heaven ixPs^lf without any conditi<
ai^olifh the di(lin6tioo between my old fermon
/he additions that guard or ftrengtheu it ^ ^nd



? R E F A C t. V

i^ing the reatkr to the title page, IpuMtA( my diUconrfe
on Rom. xk 5, 6, aa a guarded ms^o^, defivewd in
my chBfCh on Suirday April the iSth, &c. lyjSr^x-
a^Iy eieveit f years altef I had preachc«t upoa the
fame text a fermon vtftful upon the whole, bot in
fotne places iuig;frsrded9 and ^^ient wkh refped
to the varhty of argumea'ts and motif es, by which
the capital dofirines of frte grmce znd gq/^i 9hidi€HC€
ought to be enforced.
