iii.] Saint Paul inspired from God aboue, is profitable to teache, to reproue, to refourme, to instruct in righteousnesse, that the man of God may be sounde and perfect, instructed to euery good worke. =Searche therefore=, good reader (on God’s name), as Christe byddeth thee the holy scripture, wherein thou mayest find thy saluation: Let not the volume of this booke (by Gods owne warrant) depart from thee but occupie thy selfe therein in the whole journey of this [Sidenote: Psal. i.] thy wordly pilgrimage, to vnderstand thy way howe to walke ryghtly before hym all the dayes of thy lyfe. Remember that the prophete David pronounceth hym the blessed man whiche wyll muse in the lawe of God [Sidenote: Psal. cxix.] both day and night, remember that he calleth him blessed whiche walketh in the way of the Lorde, which wyll searche diligently his testimonies, and wyll in their whole heart seeke the same. Let not the couert suspicious insinuations of the adversaries driue thee from the searche of the holy scripture, either for the obscuritie whiche they say is in them, or for the inscrutable hidden misteries they talke to be comprised in them, or for the straungnes and homlynes of the phrases they would charge Gods booke with. Christe exhorteth thee therefore the rather for the difficultie of the same, to searche them diligently. [Sidenote: Hebr. v. 1 Cor. xiiii.] Saint Paul wylleth thee to haue thy senses exercised in them, and not to be a chylde in thy senses, but in malice. Though many thinges may be difficulte to thee to vnderstand, impute it rather to thy dull hearing and reading, then to thinke that the scriptures be insuperable, to them whiche with diligent searching labour to discern the evil from the good. [Sidenote: Math. vii.] Only searche with an humble spirite, aske in continuall prayer, seek with puritie of life, knocke with perpetuall perseueraunce, and crye to that good spirite of Christe the Comforter: and surely to euery suche asker it wyll be geuen, such searchers must nedes finde, to them it wylbe opened. Christ hym selfe wyll open the sense of the scriptures, [Sidenote: Math. xi. Esai. lxi.] not to the proude, or to the wyse of the worlde, but to the lowly and contrite in heart; [Sidenote: 1 Cor. xii.] for he hath the kay of Dauid, who openeth and no man shutteth, who shutteth and no man openeth. [Sidenote: Apoc. iii.] For as this spirite is a bening and liberall spirite, and wyll be easyly founde of them which wyll early in carefulnesse ryse to seeke hym, [Sidenote: Sapi i.] and as he promiseth he will be the comforter from aboue to teache vs, and to leade vs into all the wayes of truth, [Sidenote: Iob xiiii.] if that in humilitie we bowe vnto hym, deniyng our owne naturall senses, our carnall wittes and reasons: [Sidenote: Sapi i.] so is he the spirite of puritie and cleannes, and will receede from him, whose conscience is subiect to filthynesse of lyfe. Into suche a soule