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THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER.

The wisdom that comes from above is first pure, then peaceable. It is all too obvious how far the Christian world is today from these divine qualities. People have so transformed Christian doctrine with their interpretations original: "glosses"; referring here to biased explanations or commentaries added to a text that it is now hardly to be found among them in its original truth and simplicity. The doctrine of Jesus Christ, as it was delivered to us by his Apostles, is no longer considered the standard of Christianity. Instead, people look to the catechisms, the creeds, and the church laws original: "canons" of the different denominations original: "sects" within the Christian world original: "Christendom". In defense of which, men—