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From: "Paul and Pam Featherstone" <>
Subject: [FEATHERSTONE] more of Christopher FETHERSTONE student in Divinity 1585
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 16:19:32 -0000


THE COMMENTARIES
of M. JOHN CALVIN
upon the Actes of the Apostles
Faithfully translated out of Latin into English for the great profit of our
countrymen, By Christopher Fetherstone
student in Divinity.
LONDON,
Impensis G. Bishop.
1585.

THE EPISTLE TO THE READER.
THOU hast at length, (Christian reader,) through the blessing of God,
wherewith he hath blessed my labors, those learned Commentaries of M. Calvin
upon the Acts of the Apostles, though simply, yet faithfully, turned into
English; and though of many I was the unmeetest to attempt this travail, yet
such was the earnest request of my godly friends, that unless I should have
taken it in hand, I should have seemed void of courtesy, and also of care to
profit God's Church. I will not stand to rip up those commodities which thou
by reading these Commentaries mayest reap, but I leave them to thine own
experience. What my travail hath been in this work, those who have endured
like toll can best judge. And forasmuch as I know well, that after great
painstaking some things have escaped me, I beseech thee, (gentle reader,)
condemn me not rashly, but rather amend them friendly. If thou shalt grow
forward in knowledge by reading this work, then praise God, who hath by this
means made thee profit. God give thee good success in reading, that thereby
thou mayest both be better learned, and also better lived.
Thine in the Lord,
CHRISTOPHER FETHERSTONE.

http://www.ccel.org/c/calvin/comment3/comm_vol36/htm/v.htm

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