To the Reader.

this I am sure of, God will condemn no man for his patience.

The world indeed may think the truth overthrown, because she The author personifies Truth as a feminine figure. is attended with her Peace, for in the judgment of most men, where there is no Noise, there is no Victory. This I shall look upon as no Disadvantage. The estimate Estimat: an archaic spelling of "estimate," referring here to the evaluation or opinion of critics. of such censors original: "Censors" — here meaning critics or those who pass judgment on the works of others. will but lighten the scales, and I dare suppose them very weak brains, who conceive the truth sinks, because it outweighs them.

1 Kings 19.

As for tempestuous out-cries, when they want their motives, they discover an irreligious spirit, one that hath more of the hurricane Hurry-cano: an early phonetic spelling of "hurricane," which was a relatively new word in English at the time, derived from the Spanish "huracán.", than of Christ Jesus. God was not in the wind, that rent the rocks to pieces, nor in the earthquake, and fire at Horeb Mount Horeb is the mountain where, in the Bible, the prophet Elijah encountered God not in grand displays of power, but in silence.: He was in a gentle breeze original: "Aura tenui" — Latin for a thin air or a gentle breeze., in the still, small voice.

My advice is, that no man should resent the common spleen original: "Spleen" — in early medicine, the spleen was thought to be the source of spite, malice, or ill-temper.. Who writes the truth of God, hath the same pa-