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To

the

Chriftian

Reader.

T

was

the

faying

of

Solon

,

That

there

*ere

many

good

Larves made,

but there

wanted

one

Law

to

malle

utt

put

all

thofe

Lowe!

in

execu-

tion

:

*The

like

may

be

/aid

concerning

the

Books

that

are written

now

adayes,

There are

manygood

books

written,

but

there wanteth

one

boob

to

make

us

put

thofe

good

books

in

praEtice.

Such

a bootWere

worth Writing,

and

worth

reading.

And

1 know

no

reafon

dut

that

this

book(

if

the

.hirit

of

Cod

`

Ille

very

scriptural

Nit

qui

verba ver-

titin

opera.

l'EP A

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Kgsooú

vn

ovMriC'rry

zicr'

ceps-.

rs;

b

aro

zis

write.it

in our

hearts)

may

have

this

happy

e

ffe

1:

For

it

is

a

boob

:0

"c''-

that

will

teach us

how to

get

into the

.Rate

of

grace,

and

how

for

°'

l

get and

keep

a

good

Con

f

cience.

And

vhó

óever

readeth

book

nor.

with

a good

confcience,

will make

a

confcience

of

what

he

readeth

: bú.

For a

good

confcience is, as

A

riltotle

faith

of

Nufiice,

a

a

Synopfis

c

p

b

and Epitome

of

all

venues

:

It

is

a

b

Panacea

to

cure

all

foul

-di.

á

Letitia

fiafes

:

It

is

C

a

medicine to digefi

all bookjfurfettin

There are

foure

forts of

Confciences

:

Some

bad

and unquiet,

ícienti

a

pa-

fame

bad

and

quiet,

force good

and unquiet,

(ewe good

and

quiet. raIi(iu

err

For a

confcience

to

be

bad and

quiet

is the worft temper

that

can

axamarum'

:

be

:

Better have

a bad unquiet then

a bad

and quiet

confcience

gaudium

q

%

as,elarum

better

have a tormenting

Tophet

in the

foul

then a

fools

Paradife:

bortusdeli.

The

befl

frame of

C'oc

/cience

is

the

good

and

quiet

con

/cience

:This

cia

it,

agar

N

a

d

`Paradrfe

upon

earth,

e

a

preguftation andpreltbation

of

hen

-

'íeneditioi

ven

a

man's'

on

for

the

Trinitie

to

dwell in

.

Now this en/uina

au:

tem,7lic

Sol

mohis

treatife

will teach

us

how

to

purchafe this

precious

jewel of

a good

íuì

Deà,

and

quiet

confcience.

A treatife

very

neceffarr in thefe

uJlconf'io-

naJGtuco1i

noble

day

es.,

wherein

maß

people"make

no

confcience

to

fnne

againf

S

Bern.

confcience

;

and

tome havefinned

long

againji

confcience

a

that

--°

they