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© To the Reader. ¬
Effigie, and few of their late Hiftorians do
any where occafionally mention “him without
fome little Wiping Character as it were eafie
to find Materials for Inflances in ſeveral
Particulars. Tet (what was fure tò be tbe
Confequence, and indeed’ was but Fuft,) be
impaired bis Efteem with the Romanifts at
n9 fafter a Rate than‘be advanced bis Repu¬
ration with the Reformed, - eſpecially here in
England, where a Tranflation of bis Para¬
phraſe on the New Teſtament was in the
Firft of Edward the Sixth ordered to be pla¬
ced in all Pariſ Churches, and in ſome of
them to: this: Day remains : The Method
whereof is very Profitable, and the Stile both
Eafie and Eloquent ; yet on ſome Texts there
is impoſed but a harf Interpretation, as T
am in onse Particular more efpecially engaged
to’ rake notice, becauſe the fame Senfe is¬
given of the fame Paſſage toward the latter
ond of this following Piece, where Animad=¬
wérting upon the Difingenuity of Commenta=*
trs, be fingles ont Francifcus de:Lyra, who
tréarinz on that Text of St Luke, c: 23.
y. 36. {He that hath no Sword: let him
Sell his Garment, and Buy’one,] bad wirh¬
out muchsInpropriery taken* the whole Lite¬
rally, tho indeed: with a very extravagant
Inference for the Legitimacy of Private De¬
fence in cafe of Perfecution. Our A sibor
misht reaſonably Arraign this Deduction of a
dange¬