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COAL-HEAVER'S COUSIN

RESCUED FROM

THE BATS;.

AND HIS

INCOMPARABLE CORDIALS

RECOVERED.

AND HILKIAH THE HIGH PRIEST SAID UNTO SAPHAN THE SCRIBE,
I HAVE FOUND THE BOOK OF THE LAW IN THE HOUSE OF TΗΣ
LORD. 2 KINGS xxii. 8.

[VERILY] I SAY UNTO YOU, I HAVE NOT FOUND SO GREAT FAITH,
NO, NOT IN ISRAEL. LUKE Vii. 9.

LONDON:

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PREFACE.

To all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in fincerity, the Reviser sendeth greeting.

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Dear Brethren,

WILL not say of this author as Claudius Lysias faid of Paul, That he was taken of the Jews, and would have been killed of them, if he had not come with an army and rescued him, but this I will fay, that he has left behind him so good a report through faith, that many in our days would have judged it their wisdom to have left it in the ruins of the house, or confined it to the moles and to the bats, rather than revise a teftimony that difcovers their foundation even to the neck. Hab. iii. 1 3.

The author of this narrative was the son of a protestant bishop, the nephew of a noble lord, and was training up for the ministry, and expected to

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