CONTAINING

Divers Discourses touching Religion, and other Main Points of
Doctrine; as also many notable Histories, and all sorts of Learning,
Comforts, Advices, Prophecies, Admonitions, Directions, and
Instructions; and how the same Book was, by God's Providence,
discovered lying under the Ground, where it had lain hid Fifty-two
Years; and was a few years since sent over to the said Captain Henry
Bell, and by him translated out of the High German into the English
Tongue.

"I, CAPTAIN HENRY BELL, do hereby declare, both to the present age,
and also to posterity, that being employed beyond the seas in state
affairs divers years together, both by King James, and also by the
late King Charles, in Germany, I did hear and understand, in all
places, great bewailing and lamentation made, by reason of the
destroying and burning of above fourscore thousand of Martin
Luther's books, entitled His Last Divine Discourses.

"For after such time as God stirred up the spirit of Martin Luther
to detect the corruptions and abuses of Popery, and to preach
Christ, and clearly to set forth the simplicity of the Gospel, many
Kings, Princes, and States, Imperial Cities, and Hans-Towns fell
from the Popish Religion, and became Protestants, as their
posterities still are, and remain to this very day.

"And for the further advancement of the great work of Reformation
then begun, the aforesaid Princes and the rest did then order that
the said Divine Discourses of Luther should forthwith be printed;