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And his Difciples afked bim, faying, What might this
Parable be? And he faid, Unto you it is given to know
the Myfteries of the Kingdom of God, Luke viii. 9, 10.

My dark and cloudy Words, they do but hold.
The Truth, as Cabinets enclofe the Gold.

BUNYAN.

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PREFA CE.

MR:

R. BUNYAN, in his excellent Apology prefixed to his Pilgrim, has fully vindicated the Metaphorical Mode of conveying Inftruction: his Authorities are indubitablehis Arguments clear and conclufiveand the End he propofes, highly valuable and important: that is, that the Inftructions of Truth may be received with Pleasure, and retained with an almost Impoffibility of Forgetfulness, through the deep Impreffion which Metaphor makes upon the Memory: he says,