I design plain truth for plain people. Therefore of set purpose I abstain from all nice and philosophical speculations: from all perplexed and intricate reasonings, and as far as possible from even the show of learning, unless in sometimes citing the original Scriptures. I labour to avoid all words which are not easy to be understood, all which are not used in common life: and in particular those kinds of technical terms that so frequently occur in bodies of divinity, those modes of speaking which