To the Reader.

the hour of temptation, and kept the Living Word of God; not denying his name, power, and spirit, nor taking or bearing it in vain.

The true poverty of spirit original: "Poverty of spirit"; a reference to the Beatitudes, meaning a state of humble dependence on God is the primary qualification for reading the most Holy Scriptures, and likewise this little treatise, now given to the world from the Fountain of Love and Peace; and is the very foun-