Your right honourable and most worthy father, knowing the good pleasure of God in this behalf, hath also after the example of all other noble & godly parents, painfully travailed, both by him self and by learned teachers, to bring you up, even from your cradle, in the knowledge of Gods will, and of good letters, that you might, as in age, so likewise in virtue and learning, grow and increase unto his comfort, unto your own commendation, & unto the profit of the common weal hereafter. And as your father is learned, and hath a breast stuffed with all godly virtues, so is his desire to have you both learned & virtuous, that when he shall give over to nature (God so disposing) he may leave behind him his own image, yea, as I may so speak, him self, not only in lineaments of body, but also in virtue, in godliness, in wisdom, in knowledge, and by this means be counted of his posterity, a worthy member of the common weal, both in him self and […] ⟨image 5⟩his son. It is your duty therefore to satisfy the good desire of so natural a father, and to answer the expectation of many, which look to find in you hereafter, that virtue, learning, wisdom, and gravity, that is evidently perceived in your most worthy father. This shall be brought to pass, if according to your beginning ye go forth diligently to call on the name of God, to apply your mind to good letters, to give ear to the wholesome admonitions of your most dear father, and to take heed to the daily exhortations of your teacher, ever framing your life according to your knowledge. And that ye may do this the more conveniently, I give you this little treatise, which shall abundantly instruct you in those points of Christian Religion, which at this present do most of all become your age. In it are contained the principles of our profession, which I have so opened with the conference of the other scriptures, that they may worthily seem to strive with large Commentaries: I have also set forth the duties of all estates and degrees, as they be •aught in Gods word, that all ages, and all kinds of people, may here learn to know their duty, both toward God & his neighbour. Neither is any thing taught in this treatise, that is not sufficiently fortressed with the authorities of the holy scriptures:
Your right honourable and most worthy father, knowing the good pleasure of God in thys behalfe, hath also after the example of all other noble & godly parentes, painfully trauailed, both by him self and by learned teachers, to bring you vp, euen frō your cradell, in the knowledge of Gods will, and of good letters, that you might, as in age, so likewise in vertue and learning, grow and encrease vnto hys comfort, vnto your owne commendation, & vnto the profite of the common weale hereafter. And as your father is learned, and hath a brest stuffed with all godly vertues, so is hys desire to haue you both learned & vertuous, that when he shall geue ouer to nature (God so disposing) hee may leaue behinde hym hys owne image, yea, as I may so speake, hym selfe, not onely in lineamentes of body, but also in vertue, in godlines, in wisedome, in knowledge, and by thys meanes bee counted of hys posteritie, a worthy member of the common weale, both in him selfe and 〈…〉 ⟨image 5⟩hys sonne. It is your dutie therfore to satisfie the good desire of so naturall a father, and to aunswere the expectation of many, which looke to finde in you hereafter, that vertue, learning, wisedome, and grauitie, that is euidently perceaued in your most worthy father. Thys shall bee brought to passe, if according to your beginning ye goe forth diligently to call on the name of God, to applie your mind to good letters, to giue eare to the wholsome admonicions of your most deare father, and to take heede to the daily exhortations of your teacher, euer framyng your life according to your knowledge. And that ye may do this the more cō ueniently, I geue you thys little treatise, which shall aboundauntly instructe you in those pointes of Christian Religion, which at thys present do most of all become your age. In it are cōtained the principles of our profession, which I haue so opened with the conference of the other scriptures, that they may worthily seeme to striue with large Cōmentaries: I haue also set forth the duties of all estates and degrees, as they bee •aught in Gods word, that all ages, and all kindes of people, may here learne to know their dutie, both toward God & hys neighbour. Neyther is any thyng taught in thys treatise, that is not sufficiently fortressed with the authorities of the holy scriptures:
