THE PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION; WITH A BRIEF METHOD OF THE DOCTRINE THEREOF. 2 TIM. VER. 1. CHAP. 13. Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. FIRST PRINTED IN 1654. VOL. XI. Ꭱ R ΤΟ THE READER. : WHEN I was about the age of two or three and twenty years, I drew up these two short summaries of the Heads of Christian Religion: the one containing the more necessary and plainer principles thereof, fit to be known of all the other, the methodical and more full declaration of some chief points thereof, framed to the capacity of such as had made a further progress in the knowledge of these Heavenly truths. I little then imagined, that such rude draughts as these were, should ever have been presented unto the public view of the world. But seeing, contrary to my mind, they have by many impressions been divulged, and that in a very faulty manner: I have been persuaded at last, upon some revisal of them, to let them now go abroad in some more tolerable |