The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot. Prov. x. 7.
He being dead yet speaketh. Heb. xi. 4.

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REFACE.

TO THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCE
IC, ARCHMARSHAL OF THE SACRED
ECTOR, DUKE OF SAXONY, MARQUIS
RAVE OF THURINGA, HIS MOST KIND
GREETING.

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