To the right worshipful •yr John Pelham Knight, John Stockwood wisheth in this life prosperity, and everlasting felicity in Christ our Saviour.To the ryght worshipfull •yr Iohn Pelham Knight, Iohn Stockwood wysheth in this lyfe prosperitie, and euerlasting felicitie in Christ our Sauiour.

To the right worshipful •yr John Pelham Knight, John Stockwood wisheth in this life prosperity, and everlasting felicity in Christ our Saviour.

To the ryght worshipfull •yr Iohn Pelham Knight, Iohn Stockwood wysheth in this lyfe prosperitie, and euerlasting felicitie in Christ our Sauiour.

After that I had turned into English, this godly, learned, and comfortable Treatise of Master • Beza, of God his eternal Election and Pre••ination: there came to my hands another ••e of the same, Englished by that learned • godly Father, Master Whytting•• and printed at Geneva in the days of •ne Mary. Hereupon I determined • my self to have stayed the setting forth •is my Translation, as a thing both neede•• and also not without suspicion of great •, and overwell liking of my self, to un••ke the translation of that work, which already so learnedly translated, by so • and learned a Father. But as on the ••e unto me, which (as God knoweth) never ⟨image 3⟩saw it, it was as it had not at all been tram slated: So since the first Englishing of it, by Master Wh• it hath been enlarged by the Author: and also divided into abetter order of Chapters: every one of them consisting of brief sentences, and as it were articles: whereof every several member, is proved with plain and plentiful testimonies of the word of God set down directly after the end of every sentence: the benefit that I am persuaded may come unto the Godly Reader by my travail, hath caused me to suffer this my translation also to come abroad, and that the rather, because it hath passed the censure and judgement of the godly and learned, who have thought that the publishing of it may be much profitable and comfortable unto God his children. This my simple labour, such as it is I offer unto you (right Worshipful) as a small token of a thankful mind towards your W for your manifold friendship and courtesies, sundry ways declared towards me: desiring you to accept it as a gift that proceedeth from such a one, who heartily wisheth you well, and would also if ability served, present you with better. Thus craving both pardon for my boldness,