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It will be the duty of those who are endowed with quicker and better
understandings, in whose case the former books are sufficient, and
more than sufficient, to effect their intended object, to bear with me
with patience and equanimity whilst I attempt with more than ordinary
diligence to tear up and eradicate depraved and ancient opinions hostile
to the truth of piety, which the long-continued error of the human
race has fixed very deeply in unenlightened minds; co-operating also
in this, according to my little measure, with the grace of Him who,
being the true God, is able to accomplish it, and on whose help I
depend in my work; and, for the sake of others, such should not deem
superfluous what they feel to be no longer necessary for themselves. A
very great matter is at stake when the true and truly holy divinity is
commended to men as that which they ought to seek after and to worship;
not, however, on account of the transitory vapor of mortal life, but
on account of life eternal, which alone is blessed, although the help
necessary for this frail life we are now living is also afforded us by
it.
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