TO THE KING.

SIR,

I MOST humbly present to Your Majesty a work,

the author whereof, my fon, was much the more dear to me for his conftant and exemplary loyalty. Not only the general obligation of a subject always engaged him to Your Majefty's fervice, but the particular favours wherewith you were pleased to honour and encourage his ftudies, might probably have induced him to a Dedication of this kind, if his modefty would have let him think any thing of his worthy Your Majesty's patronage. This, which I here offer, is, by those who are better able to judge of it than myself, valued as the most confiderable of his productions: but it chiefly prefumes to entitle itself to your royal protection, because it is an Explication and Vindication of that Chriftian Faith, whereof Your Majefty is the great Defender.

And, Sir, I beg leave to take this opportunity to make as public an acknowledgment as I can, of that great goodness Your Majefty has fhewn in the acceptance and recompenfe of the fidelity I have through a course of many years borne to the cause of Your Majesty and your Royal Father.

Long may Your Majefty live and reign under the happy conduct and bleffing of that Wisdom, in

whose right hand is length of days, and in her left hand riches and honour. I am,

May it please your Majesty,

Your Majesty's most humble,

faithful, and obedient

Subject and Servant,

THOMAS BARROW.

I BELJEUE in God the Father Almighty,

Maker of heaven and earth :

And in Jefus Chrift his only Son our Lozd, who was conceived by the Holy Ghoßt, born of the Wirgin Mary, fuffered under Pontius Pilate, was czucified, dead, and buzied, He dEscended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead, he afcended into heaven, and fitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Ghoft; the holy Catholic Church; the Communion of Saints; the forgiveness of fins; the refuyection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.