First Sentence

"AS I am defirous of avoiding confufion of method, and would, at the fame time, guard, as much as may be, againft the undue operation of prejudice in thofe who may think it worth their while to read the following effay, it may not be amifs to begin with a few particulars, tending to prevent a mifconftruction of my meaning, in the propofition I have advanced, and fhall endeavour prefently to prove, namely, that all men, according to the fcripture-fcheme, fhall finally and certainly be happy."