WE offer vnto thee, Christian Reader, these Lectures of that most reuerent and faithfull seruant of Iesus Christ M. ROBERT ROLLOCK, vpon the tvvo Epistles of the Apostle Paul to the Thessalonians. We haue taine painos and traueile that thou mightest finde profite and edification. For not onely haue vve conferred sundry coppies gotten from the hands of them vvho vvrote them from his mouth, but also vve haue conferred them vvith the Latine Commentarie vvritten by the Author himselfe, that thou mightest haue fullie, so farre as vvas possible, both his ovvne phrase and matter. In conferring of the Copies vve omitted repetitions, cleered thinges obscure, and filled out imperfite sentences, that in nothing thou mightest finde inlack. If thou doubt, either of the style or matter, or if any vvould moue thee to conceiue any eye-list or misliking of this vvorke (as vve are not ignorant hovv readie many are oft-tymes, vpon small or rather no ground, before they haue either seene or read, in such cases to giue out sentence) vve pray thee shovve vs this fauour to superceede thy iudgement vntill thou hast red and considered, then mayest thou pronounce vvith the better vvarrand. If thou read vvith an hart indifferent and desirous to be edified, vve trust thou shalt finde thou hast not lost thy labours. And if thou returne glorie to God, and get grace to thy ovvne soule, vvhich vvere the cheefe ends of our traueiles, vve vvill thinke vve haue gotten a sufficient recompence and obtained our desires.
Farewell.
