To the godly Reader.

To the godly Reader.

I Have taken pains for thy profit and comfort (godly and gentle Reader) to turn into thine own Mother tongue, a singular and notable treatise, of God his Election and Predestination. There are adjoined hereunto short, easy, profitable and fruitful writings of other godly and learned Fathers of our own country, of the same contents and argument, to the end that thou mayst have in one little hand book, easy to be carried about with thee, a full and plain discourse agreeable to God his word, upon this both needful and comfortable point of Christian religion. These travails of God his ministers, as on thy part I doubt not but they shall be both thankfully and also profitably to thy souls comfort received, so I am likewise assured that there be others which are utter enemies unto this doctrine, and do (think all writings hereof more meet for the fire, then for ⟨image 4⟩••e reading of God his children. The ar••ments which they use against it, look •• we many they be (as they be in deed ••nie, and by many godly and learned ••n many ways Godly and learnedly refuted) so many evident bewrainges be ••y of their Authors follies and wilful setting them selves to bark against the ••••dom of God, who so plentifully in his ••de hath opened this doctrine to the ••forte of his children, and confutation ••is adversaries. And truly in my sim•• judgement it is overthwart curiositie•• foolish niceness in men to think that ••neete to be uttered which God in his ••tures hath revealed? yea it savoureth verie strongly of great arrogance, as gh they took upon them to be […] wiser then God, who if he had known doctrine dangerous of unmeet for people, would never have so plainly ared and set it for th his word. It […] be needless for me to spend time in er confuting the objections of the adries against this doctrine, or in stan to show the commodities that do by