¶ The reuelacion of Iesus Christ, whiche god gaue vnto him, for to shewe vnto his ser∣uauntes, thinges which must shortiye come to passe. And whē he had sent, he shewed by his angel vnto his seruaunt Iohn, whiche bare recorde of the word of god, & of y• restimonye of Iesus Christe and of all thinges that he sawe. Happye is he that readeth and they that heare the wordes of the prophesye, & kepe those thinges which are wrytten therin. For the tyme is at hande.
VNto our sauiour Iesus Christe / after his manhode, was geuen of god his father, not onely all suf∣ficiencie and fulnes of grace, but also the knowledge and reuelacion of all suche secret mysteries, as shoulde happen from tyme to tyme in Christendome, vntyll suche tyme as he shoulde come againe vnto the lattre iudgement: whiche secretes our sauiour Christ dyd reuele and open throughe his angels vnto his electe seruauntes, and specially vnto holy S. Iohn: I meane vnto that Iohn, whiche bare wytnes of the worde of god, and of Iesus Christ, and dyd recorde all suche matters and doctrine, as he himselfe had sene, and lerned. Whiche doctrine shall be very profytable vnto e∣uery one that shall reade & vnderstande this prophecye, so far as he shal endeuer himselfe to lyue therafter, preparinge & appointynge himselfe thorowe a true faith and a christen conuersacion to please the lorde in this lyfe, whiche is shorte and transitorye, and the ende therof, vncerten▪