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For the Right Understanding of the
SEVERAL DIVINE

Laws and Covenants,

Whereby Man has been oblig'd thro' the several
Ages of the World to guide himself in order
to Eternal Salvation. Wherein the most impor-
tant Points of Religion are explain'd and set
in a true Light.

Chiefly design'd for the Benefit of young Students in
Divinity, but very Useful to be perused by all Re-
ligious Persons, in order to their Right Understand-
ing of GOD's most Gracious as well as most Just
Dealings with All Mankind, from the Creation to
the End of the World.

IN TWO PARTS

By the Revd Dr Edw. Wells, late Rector of Cotes-
bach in Leicestershire, and Bleachly in Bucks.

OXFORD,

Printed at the THEATER for Will. Wells Bookfeller
in Oxford: and Sold by Ja. Knapton, Cb. Rivington,
in St Paul's Church-yard, and Jof. Hazard at the Bible
in Stationers Court, Bookfellers in London. 1729.

141.j.574.

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ED. BUTLER

Vice-Can. O ΧΟΝ.

Feb. 6. 1728.

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T must be granted, that it is of the very bighest
Importance to have a right Knowledge of

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of the Gofpel-Covenant; forafmuch as on a right Knowledge thereof depend a right Belief and Practice, and on these depends our Eternal Salvation. As such a right Knowledge is necessary to every Christian, so it is in the most special manner to a Divine; forasmuch as a wrong Notion in one whose Business it is to instruct others, thereby becomes more liable to spread its Contagion, and fo to prove pernicious to the greater Number of People. It can never be enough lamented, that the great Cunning of that grand Enemy, who is always making it his Business to sow Tares among the good Seed, has so far prevail d, that there is scarce any one material Point of the Gospel-Covenant relating to Salvation, but what is misunderstood by some Party or other of Chriftians, or of such at least as call themselves so. Hence it comes to pass, that the Ge-. nerality of Books concerning Divinity is more or less tainted with wrong Notions of the Gospel-Covenant; and particularly fuch Books as usually fall or are put first into the hands of young Students in Divinity, on account of their Compendiousness, and So Smalness and Cheapness; as the Common Systems,

Enchiridions, or the like. By these unhappy means

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