IX. If any now mould think our Author

chargeable with 'tautology, in Repeating the very
fame thing fo often over and over again ; I mall
only Afk, what Antient or Modern Writer is not
Guilty of the fame, equally with our Author ?
For Brevity's fake, I Ihall Omit here the Liber-
ties peculiar to the Homiletic Way -, I take no
Notice of the Connexion there is in truths with
one another $ I forbear Obferving the veiy Small
Compafs that Moral or Divine Truths would lie in,
were every Appearance o£ Tautology to be Dis-
carded Utterly ; Nor fhall I Defcant upon the
Dulnefs of the Natural Man, and the Unavoidable
Weaknefs, even of 'the Spiritual Man in his Mino-
rity, or during his Probation.

Phil in. 1. 2,. It was the Apollle's own Apology in the
like cafe, To write the fame things to you, to me in-
deed is not Grievous, but for you it is Safe. And
the very Appointment of God himfelf byhisPro-

Ifa.xxviu.ph^ ^at Line fhould be upon Line, Line upon

L4ne^

The Introduction. jj

Line, Precept upon Precept, Precept upon Precept,
here a Little and there a Little, is cither a Direct
Warrant for the Practice, or at leaft gives fufTici-
cnt Countenance to it. Nor is the Spiritual or
Intellectual Man under any Greater Inconvenience
in All this than the Natural, in having day by
day the very fame Common Food and Diet Allot-
ted to him over again.