THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER. T Publish the Writings of Persons without their Confent, is a Practife generally Speaking, fo Unfair, and has fo many times proved an unfufferable injury to the Credit and Reputa tion of the Authors, as well as a shame ful Impofition on the Publick, either by a Scandalous Infertion of Spurious Pieces, or an Imperfect and Faulty Edition of Such as are Genuine, that tho' I have been Mafter of fuch of the following Pieces, as have never yet been Printed, for feveral Months, I could never, tho' much Importuned, prevail on my felf to Publifh them, fearing even a pof fibility of doing an Injury in either of thofe Two Refpects to the Perfon who is generally known to be the Author of some; and, with greater Reason than I am at prefent at Liberty to give, fuppofed to be the Author of all the other Pieces which A 2 make |