The prophete Ionas with an introduccion / before teachinge to vnderstonde him and the right vse also of all the scripture/ and why it was written/ and what is therin to be sought/ and shewenge wherewith the scripture is locked vpp that he which readeth it/ can not vnderstonde it/ though he studie therin neuer so moch: and agayne with what keyes it is so opened/ that the reader can be stopped out with no sotilte or false doctrine of man/ from the true sense and vnderstondynge therof.

There are no page are numbers in the original. The introduction has The Prologe. as a running header.
As y e ēvious Philistenes stopped y e welles of Abraham ād filled them vpp with erth / to put y e memoriall out of mīde / to y e entent y t they might chalenge y e grounde: even so the fleshly mīded ypocrites stoppe vpp the vaynes of life which are in y e scripture / w t the erth of theyr tradiciōs / false similitudes & lienge allegories: & y t of like zele / to make y e scripture theyr awne possessiō & marchaundice: and so shutt vpp the kingdome of heven which is Gods worde nether enterīge in thē selues nor soferinge them that wolde.
¶ The scripture hath a body with out / ād within a soule / sprite & life. It hath w t out a barke / a shell ād as it were an hard bone for y e fleshly mynded to gnaw vppon. And within it hath pith / cornell / mary & all swetnesse for Gods electe which he hath chosen to geve them his spirite / & to write his law & y e faith of his sonne in their hertes.
¶ The scripture cōteyneth .iii. thīges in it first y e law to cōdemne all flesh: secōdaryly y e Gospell / y t is to saye / promises of mercie for all y t repent & knowlege their sinnes at the preachīge of y e law & cōsent in their hertes that the law is good / & submitte them selues to be scolers to lern to kepe the lawe & to lerne to beleue y e mercie that is promised thē: & thridly the stories & liues of those scolars / both what chaunces fortuned thē / & also by what meanes their scolemaster taught thē and made them perfecte / & how he tried the true from the false.
¶ When y e ypocrites come to y e lawe / they put gloses to ād make no moare of it then of a worldly law which is satisfied with y e outwarde worke and which a turke maye also fulfill. Whē yet Gods law never ceaseth to cōdemne a man vntill it be written in his herte and vntill he kepe it naturally without cōpulsion & all other respecte saue only of pure love to God and his neyboure / as he naturally eateth whē he is an hongred / without cōpulsiō & all other respecte / saue to slake his hongre only.