85. 'Inueni Dauid seruum meum; oleo sancto meo unxi eum'; Ps. lxxxix. 20 (lxxxviii. 21, Vulgate).
93. openly; hence the author had publicly recanted.
Book III.
Chap. I. This chapter is really a Prologue to the Third Book.
2. discrete, separate; tellinge, counting.
3. Three was considered a perfect number; see below.
6. Time was divided into three ages; first, the age of Error, before the coming of Christ; all that died then went to hell, whence some
were rescued by Christ when He descended thither. The second, the age of Grace, from the time of Christ's coming till His second advent. The third, the age of Joy, enduring for ever in heaven.
Deviacion; Thynne prints Demacion, an obvious error for Deuiacion (m for ui); in l. 26, it is replaced by Errour of misgoinge, which has the same sense, and in bk. ii. ch. 8. 126, it is called out-waye-going. The New E. Dict. has no quotation for deviation older than 1603; but here we find it.
25. I. e. Book I treats of Error or Deviation; Book II, of Grace; and Book III, of Joy.