TO THE CHRISTIAN READER.

WHereas many, desirous of resolutio~
in some points handled
in this learned Discourse,
were earnest to haue it copied
out: to ease so many labours,
it hath beene thought
most worthy and very necessarie to bee printed,
that not only they might be satisfied, but
the whole Church also hereby edified. The rather
because it will free the Author from the
suspition of some errours, which he hath been
thought to haue favoured. Who might well
haue answered with Cremutius in Tacitus, Verba
mea arguuntur, adeo factorum innocens sum. Certainely,
the event of that time, wherein he lived,
shewed that to be true, which the same
Authour spake of a worse, Cui deerat inimicus,
per amicos oppressus; and that there is not minus
periculum ex magna fama, quam ex mala. But he
hath so quit himselfe, that all may see, how, as it
was said of Agricola, Sim~ul suis virtutibus, simul vitijs
aliorum in ipsam gloriam præceps agebatur. Touching
whom I will say no more, but that which
my Authour said of the same man, Integritatem,
&c. in tanto viro referre, iniuria virtutum fuerit. But
as of all other his writings, so of this I wil adde
that, which Velleius spake in commendation of
Piso, Nemo fuit, qui magis, quæ agenda erant, curaret,
sine vlla ostentatione agendi. So not doubting,
Good Christian Reader, of thy assent herein,
but wishing thy favourable acceptance of this
worke, which will be an inducement to set
forth others of his learned labours I take my
leaue; from Corpus Christi College in Oxford.

Thine in Christ Iesus
HENRY IACKSON.