The Translator to the Reader

HITHERTO (gentle Reader) haue I performed the part of a Translatour: howe faithfully and soundly, thy selfe shall iudge. Yet this will I promise of my selfe, that there hath not wanted that diligence, which in Translating a worke of matters of CATHOLICKE Doctrine; abounding with so many places of Scripture, or rather compacte of words and sentences of Scriptures and Fathers; & in so short a Volume setting downe the whole summe of our RELIGION: is in anie Learned mans iudgement necessary. Nowe whereas I haue founde in the running ouer this notable worke, some fewe questions, either not touched at all, or not so throughly handled, as the necessity of our COVNTREY doth require: I haue heere thought good with as much breuity as the thinges will permitte, and according to my simple skill in DIVINITIE, to addresse thee the same: that thou hauing as it were in one Posie, each pleasaunt flowre contained, maiest be prepared against all manner of pestilent vapours, which in so vnsauorie an aire thou maiest meete withall. Thy part it shal be, that as with the going forewarde of this worke, my desire of thy spirituall good hath increased: so thou also doe continue, if not increase, the gratefull acceptance of my labours.