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64. This book has extended to a greater length than I expected or
desired. But the reader or hearer who finds pleasure in it will not
think it long. He who thinks it long, but is anxious to know its
contents, may read it in parts. He who does not care to be acquainted
with it need not complain of its length. I, however, give thanks to
God that with what lithe ability I possess I have in these four books
striven to depict, not the sort of man I am myself (for my defects
are very many), but the sort of man he ought to be who desires to
labor in sound, that is, in Christian doctrine, not for his own
instruction only, but for that of others also.
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