IN the advertisement prefixed to the first volume of this reprint
of the writings of Tyndale, the editor announced the intention of ar-
ranging them in three classes, viz. doctrinal and hortatory treatises;
helps to a right understanding of the scriptures, consisting of intro-
ductory prefaces, expositions, and notes upon the sacred text; and
lastly his replies, and exposures of the adversaries of the Reformation.

The first volume has accordingly comprehended the whole of the
first class, and of the introductory prefaces, or prologues, as Tyndale
styled them. Proceeding, therefore, to the expositions, the present
volume will commence with Tyndale's exposition of the Sermon on
the mount, as coming first in the order of the scriptures, though not
published till 1532, and consequently some months later than his ex-
position of the first epistle of St John ^1.
For the following reprint,
that of Day in 1673, the peculiar readings of which will be marked D.,
has been collated with a copy of the exposition in the archiepiscopal
library at Lambeth, numbered 401 in Dr Maitland's account of rare
books in that library, and of which he has said that it may be a
specimen of the first edition. The readings of the Lambeth edition
will be distinguished by the letter L.; and the marginal notes found
in it will have the initials W. T. attached to them, to mark that
Tyndale is to be held responsible for them alone, the other marginal
notes being probably composed by Foxe, as editor for Day.]

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