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To the right Reverend father in God, and my very good Lord, William by Gods providence Bishop of Exeter, John Cox Wisheth all grace, and peace of conscience from God our heavenly father, through Christ Jesus our Lord, now and for ever.

To the right Reuerend father in God, and my very good Lorde, William by Gods prouidēce Bishop of Excester, Iohn Cox Wisheth all grace, and peace of conscience from God our heauenly father, through Chryste Iesus our Lord, nowe and for euer.

WHEN I HAD finished the translation of this Book, (right Reverend father) and being persuaded by some of my godly friends, to publish the same in Print, for that it was a Book not only containing the whole sum of our Christian Religion, but also answers to all the objections which our adversaries the Papists may or can object against us, bearing any similitude or likelihood of truth: and again also considering with my ⟨image 3⟩self, that in these our days, being the last, and therefore the most perilous and dangerous days, for so our saviour Christ him self teacheth us, wherein we have great need to be furnished against the assaults of the enemies of true Religion: and weighing with my self the godly mind of the author, D. Henry Bullinger, who wrote the same in his own natural tongue, for the profit of his Countrymen, as more largely appeareth in his own preface, where he declareth why he took this matter in hand, a man of most singular learning and virtuous living, for whom all christendom is bound to magnify the majesty of god, declaring his love towards us, in sending such an excellent member to his Church, who painfully travelled, not only in Lectures and Sermons, even in his old and feeble age, but also wrote many Books, so that it can not well be discerned, in which of these two exercises he did most exceed in labour: thought I could do God no better service, and no greater pleasure to my Countrymen, than to make them partakers of such a ⟨image 3⟩precious pearl as this. For that it is a sure shield and strong furnished fortress against the carping tongs and clapping clacks of Mo his race. For such is the great frowardness & obstinacy of some men, that although God of his mercy and clemency hath repressed and beaten down the frozen, frosty, and dark mountains of Popish Cimmeria, whereby the clearness of his Gospel was kept from us, and hath caused the most comfortable bright beams of his Gospel to shine forth over us, yet they most wickedly blindfold them selves with the thick and foggy mists of mans imaginations, and so rebelling against God their Creator, chose rather stubbornly to abide in their old horrible darkness, than willingly to embrace the comfortable light of so merciful a God. Wherefore I mused with my self, to whom chiefly I might dedicate this treatise: