THE

Young Gentleman's

ARITHMETICK;

CONTAINING

The more Easy and Useful
ELEMENTS of Arithme-
tick, both Common and Alge-
braical.

By EDWARD WELLS, D. D.
Rector of Cotesbach in Leicestershire.

The Second EDITION.

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LONDON,

Printed for JAMES KNAPTON, at the Crown
in St. Paul's Church-Yard. MDCCXXІІІ.

L.C.11-1295.M.

The General

PREFACE.

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Sit is an Happiness
of Men above Brutes,.
that they are endu-
ed with Reason ;

So it is an Happi-
ness of Gentlemen above the
meaner Part of Mankind, that,
being free'd from the Common
and Bodily Employments of Life,
they have Leisure to exercise
their Reason in more Noble
Studies: Among which may
justly be reckon'd the Study of
Mathematicks.

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For as it is one Branch of the Transcendent Excellency of GOD, that He is the infinitely Wife Creator of all Things; So it is one Branch of the Excellency of Man, that He is able to contemplate and apprehend the infinite Wisdom of bis Creator, manifested in the Works of the Creation: Whereunto Nothing conduces more than the Knowledge of Mathematicks. For we are affured (+) by the wisest of Men, that GOD has order'd all Things in Measure, Number, and Weight, that is, according to the Rules of Mathematicks :

(+) Wisdom of Solomon, Chap. 11. Ver. 20.

And

And therefore, He that would rightly apprehend the Excellent Order or Contrivance of the Creation, must first understand the Sciences relating to MeaSure, Number, and Weight, that is, the several Parts of Mathematicks.

And, fince GOD sends no One into the World, to be idle, or only to take Lis Pastime therein; but the more He has free'd Gentlemen from bodily Labour, the more He expects they should exercise the Faculties of their Minds, in order to bis greater Glory, by raising their Minds to more clear and Sublime Apprehenfions of bis Divine Perfections; and fince A 4

the