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O THE MOST HIGH AND Mighty Prince, JAMES, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c.

The Tranflators of the BIBLE, wish Grace, Mercy, and Peace, through Jesus CHRIST our LORD.

Reat and manifold were the bleffings (most dread Soveraign) which Almighty God, the Father of all mercies, beftowed upon us the people of England, when firft he fent your Majefties Royal perfon to rule and reign over us. For whereas it was the expectation of many, who wished not well unto our Sion, that upon the fetting of that bright Occidental Star, gueen Elizabeth of ft happy memory, Some thick and palpable clouds of darkness would fo have overshadorned this land, at men should have been in doubt which way they were to walk; and that it should hardly be known, o was to direct the unfettled State: the appearance of your Majefty, as of the Sun in his ftrength, ftantly difpelled thofe fuppofed and furmised mifts, and gave unto all that were well affected exceed g cause of comfort, cfpecially when we beheld the Government established in your Highneß, and ur hopeful fecd, by an un- doubted Title, and this also accompanied with peace and tranquillity, at home d abroad.

But amongst all our joyes, there was no one that more filled our hearts, then the bleffed continuance of the aching of Gods Jacred Word among ft us, which us that inestimable treasure which excelleth all the riches the earth, because the fruit thereof extendeth it felf, not onely to the time spent in this tranfitory rld, but directeth and difpofeth men unto that eternal happineß which is above in heaven. Then not to fuffer this to fall to the ground,but rather to take it up,and to continue it in that state, berein the famous predeceffor of your Highneß did leave it, Nay, to go forward with the confidence and folution of a man-in maintaining the truth of Chrift, and propagating it far and near, is that which th jobound and firmly knit the hearts of all your majefties loyal and religious people unto you, that ur very Name is precious among them, their eye doth behold you with comfort, and they bleẞ you in their arts, as that Sanctified perfon, who, under God, is the immediate author of their true happines. Ind this their contentment doth not diminish or decay, but every day encreafeth and taketh strength, hen they obferve that the zeal of your Majefty towards the house of God, doth not flack or go backard, but is more and more kindled, manifefting it self abroad in the furthest parts of Christendom, by ing in defence of the Truth,(which hath given fuch a blow unto that man of fin, as will not be healed ery day at home, by religious and learned difcourfe, by frequenting the house of God, by hearing Word preached, by cherishing the teachers thereof, by caring for the Church, as a most tender and ing nurfing Father.

here are infinite arguments of this right Chriftian and religious affection in your Majefty but none nore forcible to declare it to others, then the vehement and perpetuated defire of the accomplishing dpublishing of this Work, which now, with all humility, we present anto your Majefty. For when er Highness had once, out of deep, judgement, apprehended how convenient it was, That out of the iginal facred Tongues, together with comparing of the Labors, both in our own and other foreign Lan ges, of many worthy men who went before us, there should be one more exact Tranflation of the holy riptures into the English tongue; your Majefty did never defift to urge and to excite thofe to whom it as commended, that the Work might be haftned, and that the bufineß might be expedited in fo decent manner, as a matter of fuch importance might justly require.

And now at last, by the mercy of God, and the continuance of our Labors, it being brought unto fuch a nclufion, as that we have great hope that the Church of England shall reap good fruit thereby, we hold our duty to offer it to your Majefty, not onely as to our King and Soveraign, but as to the principal lover and Author of the Work: Humbly craving of your most facred Majelty, that, fince things of this uality have ever been fubject to the cenfures of ill meaning and difcontented perfons, it may receive probation and Patronage from fo learned and judicious a prince, as your Highness is, whofe allowance nd acceptance of our Labours fhall more honor and encourage us, then all the calumniations and hard nterpretations of other men fhall difmay us. So that if on the one fide we shall be traduced by Popifla erfons at home or abroad, who therefore will malign us, because we are poor inftruments to make Gods ly Truth to be yet more and more known unto the people, whom they defire ftill to keep in ignorance and arkness or if on the other fide, we shall be maligned by felf-conceited brethren, who run their own ys, and give liking unto nothing, but what is framed by themselves, and hammered on their Anvil & may reft fecure, fupported within by the truth and innocency of a good confcience, having walked the fimplicity and integrity, as before the Lord; And fuftained without, by the powerful protim of your Majefties grace and favor, which will ever give countenance to honeft and Chriftian ex Os against bitter cenfures and uncharitable imputations.

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The Lord of heaven and earth bleß your Majefty with many and happy days, that as his heavenly hand,

henrybed your Highneß with many fingulars a d extraordinary graces; fo you may be the wonder of world in this latter age, for happiness and true felicity, to the honour of that great GOD, and the fhis Church, through Jefus Chrift our Lord and onely Saviour.

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The names and order of all the Books of the Old and New Teftament, with the number of their Chapters.

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24 And God faid, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattel and t Heb. 11creeping thing, and beaft of the earth after his ving foul. kind: and it was fo.

25 And God made the beaft of the earth after his kind, and cattel after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God law that it was good.

26 And God faid,* Let us make man in our Chap. image, after our likenefs: and let them have 5.1.89.6 dominion over the fifh of the fea, and over the 1 Cor.11. fowl of the air, and over the cattel, and over all 7 the earth, and over every creeping thing that col.3.10. creepeth upon the earth.

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27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him, male and Matth. female created he them. 19.4

28 And God bleffed them, and God faid unto them, Be fruitful,and multiply, and replenish Chap. the earth, and fubdue it, and have dominion o= 9. . ver the fifh of the fea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth Hebr. upon the earth. creepeth..

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17 And God fet them in the firmament of the fim heaven, to give light upon the earth:

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