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Excerpt from A Guide to the Church: In Several Discourses; To Which Are Added, Two Postscripts HE writer who fecks not popularity, mull not expeét to be popular; whillt he whofe objecft is truth, will be fatisfied with the conviétion, that the politic'as laid down by him are capable of being fub flantiated by their proper proofs.' Should it be his misfortune to be writing to a world too much en. Gaged with itfelf, or too indifferent to the fubjefi he is handling, to give it due attention, he will confider himfelf as one born out of due time; and that his words are not true, only becaufe they are not jea/bn able - a confideration, which, to a man who has learned that the truth of Goo is of more value than the whole world, cannot, in the prefent day, be fo much a fubjeél for furprife, as it is for regret. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.