Ye are not under the Law, but under GRACE. The LAW was our Schoolmatter to bring us to CHRIST; who hath changed the Customs which MOSES delivered. Rom. 6.14. Gal.3.24. Acts, 6. 14.

The Law was given by Mofes, but Grace and 'Truth came by Jefus Chrift. And by bim all that believe are justified from all Things, from which ye could not be justified by the Law of MOSES. Jobn.1.17. &c.

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As the OLD Cabole Duty of Man was design'd for

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Essentially necessary to Salvation.

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With DEVOTIONS proper for several Occafions.

THE TWENTY-SECOND EDITION.

Without FAITH it is impoffible to pleafe God. Heb. xi. 6.

This is bis Commandment, that we fhould BELIEVE on the Name

of bis Son Jefus Christ, and LOVE one another. i John iii. 23.

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EORGE the Second, by the Grace fof God, King of Great Britain, France, and GIreland, Defender of the Faith. To alt, to whom these Presents shall come,

Greeting: WHEREAS our Trufsty and Well-beloved Edward Wicksteed, of our City of London, Bookfelter, hath humbly represented unto us, that he is now Printing a New Edition (with great Improvements) of a Work; Entitled,

The New Whole Duty of Man.

Containing the Faith as well as Practice of a Chriftian, made easy for the Practice of "the Present Age, as, the D. Whole Duty of Man was designed for those unbappy Timer in which it was written; and supplying the ARTICLES of the Christian Faith "which are wanting in that Book, thỏ

Essentially necessary to Salvation.

"Neceffary for all Families: with Devotions proper for feveral Occafions." AND whereas the said Edward Wickfeed has informed us, that the said Work has been perfected with great Labour, Study, and Expence, He has therefore humbly prayed us to AUTHORISE, and grant to him, the faid Edward Wickfleed, Our Royal Privilege and Licence for the SOLE Printing, Publishing, and Vending the faid Work, &c.

We being gracioufly inclined to give all due Encouragement to Works that may be

Of Publick Ufe and Benefit,

and especially to those of this Kind, which so greatly tend to the Advancement of Religion, and the general Good and Benefit of Mankind, ARE pleased to condescend to his Request, and DO, by these Presents, (as far as may be agreeable to the Statute in that Cafe made and provided) AUTHORISE, and grant to the faid Edward Wicksteed, his Executors, Adminiftrators and Affignis, our Royal Privilege and Licence for the SOLE Printing, Publishing, and Vending the faid Work, together with all and all manner of Amendments, Corrections, Alterations, and Additions of or to the fame, &c. ftrictly forbidding and probibiting all our Subjects within our Kingdoms and Dominions to reprint; abridge, or extraft the fame, or any Part or Parts thereof, either in the like, or in any other Volume or Volumes whatsoever; Os to import, buy, vend, utter, or diftribute any Copies thereof, or of any Part or Parts thereof, printed or reprinted beyond the Seas, &c. without the AUTHORITY, Confent, or Approbation of the faid Edward Wicksteed, his Executors, Administrators, or Afligns, by Writing under his or their Hands and Seals first had and obtained, as they and every of them offending herein will answer the contrary at their Peril, and fuch other Penalties as by the Laws and Statutes of our Realms may be inflicted. WHEREOF the Commissioners and other Officers of our Customs, the Master, Wardens, and Company of Stationers of London, and all other Officers and Minifters, whom it may concern, are to take Notice, that a strict Obedience be given to our Pleasure herein fignified.

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To the READER.

HE following reasons, I hope, will justify me to a candid and confiderate reader, for publishing this Whole Duty of Man; and, I trust, they are also fufficient to remove and prevent any prejudices, that at first appearance may poffibly be entertained or suggested against it.

It being now near one hundred years fince the publication of the OLD Whole Duty of Man, it need not be matter of surprise to any, if the generality of readers begin to be but a little affected by that work.

The cause of which dislike is to be ascribed in a great measure, I prefume, to the distance of those times in which that treatise was wrote; for not only the words, but the manner of expreffion, and the ways and methods of treating such subjects are, and ought to be, very different now from what they were formerly. And tho' I am far from denying that a vein of found learning and morality is vifible throughout that book, or that it was well adapted for those unhappy times of strife and confusion in which it was written; * yet all this lying under the forementioned disadvantages, it is apprehended the people of the present age are never like to be better reconciled to it. "For the cafe in reality was this: during the time of confufion, many of the preachers (and writers) had not only forborne to inculcate the duties of morality, but had laboured to depreciate them; to perfuade the people that faith was all, and works nothing. And therefore, in order to take off those unhappy impreffions, the Clergy found themselves obliged to inculcate, with more than ordinary diligence, the neceffity of moral duties in the christian life, and to labour to restore them to their proper share in the christian scheme." + Befides,