The ideal audience for the book," he says "should be the preachers, the gentry, the lawyers, men of affairs, who drawing such water as they find from the book can use it," he says, "to sprinkle the same both from the pulpit and from their conversation upon the people."

他还说，像传教士，贵族，律师，当政者,这样的人就更应该读这本书，因为他们有能力,把从书中汲取的思想认识，通过礼拜或与他人的交谈,有效地传播出去“

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