A Rule and a Riddle, or an Everlasting Task for Blind Watchmen and Old Women: In a Letter to a Friend (Classic Reprint)

Christian Reader, 1BEGAN the followino; letter with an intent to fend it as an anfwer to a very po Hte one fent by an unknown friend :o mc :it came without a name, but I was to dired: it to him with the initials of his name to a certain number. When I had written about thirty folio pages of manufcript, I felt an inclination rifing in my mind to publifli it; and as the gentleman informs me that he fometimes hears me, I thought it was fure to fall into his hands-: and as he feems to be an earnefl: inquirer after truth, I fee no caufe whyhe fliould be offended at the publication of it, as I think it is an anfwer of truth, and feeing; it may be ufeful to other inquirers as well as to him, if God sblefling fliould attend it.
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