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Excerpt from And the Confines Thereof: With the History of the Old and New Testament Acted Thereon
Now that your honour cannot be taxed with any actual offence, your tender months not as yet completing a year,, do sufficiently evidence, whose innocence is the most entire relic of our primitive integrity, and most perfect pattern of our future felicity. Yea, some admiring what motives to mirth infants meet with in their silent and solitary smiles, have resolved (how truly I know not) that then they con U.verse with angels, as indeed such cannot amongst mortals find any fitter companions.
One or more of these three main ends are aimed at by authors in all ingenious Dedications - hope to receive protection, desire to derive instruction and zeal to express affection.
For the first, though you cannot by your power, yet you may by your innocence be an excellent patron to protect our ensuing work. In the civil wars some have saved themselves from the sword with no other shield than bearing a babe in their arms, which rebated their enemies' fury into compassion. So when some shall be ready to wound our book with their censuring darts, they will be mollified into mercy, finding your innocent name prefixed in the front thereof.
As for deriving instruction, I confess your honour as yet incapable thereof: but seeing infants' clothes are providently made with the bigness to which they will grow up in process of time, why may not books (the clothes of the mind) to proportioned above their present capacity, in hope they will seasonably shoot up to the understanding thereof?
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