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¶ To the Christian rea∣der. C. F. wisheth grace, mercie, and peace, from God the father, & from our Lord Iesus Christ.
AS Iron fornaces, doe not at y• first blowing send out the greatest, nor yet the soun∣dest sowes of Irō, yet those which are then cast, are not cast away: As out of the fi∣nest fountayne of water, there doeth not at the first issue out the greatest aboundaunce of water, yet men doe not refuse, but rather chuse the same, if it be but onely (quia noua delectant) because they are delighted in no∣uelties: so (gentle reader) authours do not at the first publishe eyther in quantitie the biggest, or in qualitie the best bookes: and yet are not they ashamed to put forth these their first labours, sithens nisi per principia ad summū peruenire non possunt, they can not come vn to perfection but by certayne beginnings. Which thing being so, doeth