To the Reader

Tue providence of God hath led me to the publication of the ensuing treatise, much beyond my first intentions. a

There came to my tangs a Synopsis of the covenant of grace on God’s part, with a Soliloquy annexed — both penned by the worthy author of that

-form of man’s covenanting with God, inserted in

my Vindiciz Pietatis, — attended with the author’s desires, and of divers other christians, that this also might be incorporated into the same book.

These desires, neither being able to resist, nor — willing to deny, I prepared some meditations to be premised, with a purpose to have put forth another edition of that book with this addition; but finding it to grow into too great a bulk to be there inserted, both this on God’s part, and the former on man’s part, come into thy hands in this distinct treatise, followed with my prayers — that the good land, whereof some clusters are here presented to thee, may be thine inheritance. See and take.

Thine, because the Lord’s
covenant servant,

R. ALLEINE.
July 8, 1665.

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