Dedicatory Epistle to the Earl of Salisbury

Grace and peace be multiplied.

RIght Honourable, such has beene the singular care and fatherly providence of God over his church in these last times: that according to his own most gratious promise (through the meanes of preaching and writing) knowledge has ouerflowed in all places, as the waters that cover the sea. Hence it is come to pass, that even this nation also, albeit utterly unworthy to receive so much as [〈1… pages missing〉]