Excerpt from The Confessional, or a Full and Free Inquiry Into the Right, Utility, Edification, and Success, of Establishing Systematical Confessions of Faith and Doctrine in Protestant Churches HE auihor Of the followin perform-1 ance, freely confeli'es hirnfel to beo 118 of thol'e, who, iii 'corfimon with an emi hentprelate, have been feized with that epi demical malady of idle and 'vifioharj men, the! Proje'c'ring TO Riz'ron'm Thir.' pusne N61 would he have any reafori to be alhamecl of clafiing with (0 co'nfpicuous a charaeier, were it not that he hath Unhappily taken an antipathy to that courfe of medicine; to' which fo many others' of the fraternity owe the recovery of their health and [enfim He is fiill, alas. Labouring to his projeft to bear, even when all the about him, 13 exclaimmg at the folly of e very one who is engaged in fo 'defperate an en' terprizc. L The honefl truth is, he thinks the remedy worfe than the difeaf'e; havihg feldon'i obferved' 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.