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CHristian Reader, how intricate and difficult a matter it is to con∣tent the various con∣ceits of the generall multitude, I doubt not but is well enough knowne to thee: and how cu∣rious (seeming) Schollers are in perusing the labours of euery one, daily experience makes it mani∣fest, who notwithstanding the benefit which they might reape vnto themselues by obseruation,
if (without affectation of their owne inuention) they would with mature Iudgement, and aduised patience, diligently read the good and godly Workes of Religious Persons, doe studie with all diligence, to lay some scandalous imputation not onely on the Author, but the poore innocent Booke, who would if it were possible, laugh at their ig∣norance.
How then shall this poore Booke dare to aduenture it selfe among so many enemies, but in hope of the kinde censure of the Learned, godly, and zealous Christians: In expectation of which, with their louing ac∣ceptance of the Fruits of the Authors Labours, it dares op∣pose it selfe to the generall view of the world, without fearing
any the Calumnies of carping Zoilists, or those which beare the irremarkable marke of the Beast, mentioned in the Reuela∣tion of S. Iohn.
And so rests thine to vse and peruse.