The Order and Sum of the Sacred and Only Method of Preaching

1. To read the text distinctly out of the canonical scriptures.

2. To give the sense and understanding of it being read, by the scripture itself.

3. To collect a few and profitable points of doctrine out of the natural sense.

4. To apply (if he has the gift) the doctrines rightly collected to the life and manners of men, in a simple and plain speech.

The sum of the sum.

Preach one Christ by Christ to the praise of Christ.

The writers which lent their help to the framing of this art of prophesying are:

Augustine, Hemingius, Hyperius, Erasmus, Illyricus, Wigandus, Jacobus Matthias, Theodore Beza, Franciscus Junius.