Præferre

Thirdelie for that the ſimple and vnlearned readers haue often beſt liking in bookes more boldely then learnedly vvritten, and are moſt in daunger to creadite moſt levvde and ſclaunderouſe lyes (in ſo muche that a great many for the commendation of theſe vertues, doo præferre the Scholar before the Maiſter, M. Dorman I meane, before D. Hardinge, ſuche is their iudgement) I haue therfore in anſvvering more at large, applied my ſelfe to such as be of meane vnderſtandinge, to vvhom the guilefull dealinges of the Papiſtes can not vvith breuitie be made manifeſt.

In this Conception, which was a beginning in time of that perſonall vniting: the one nature did not not ſimplie aſſume the other: but the perſon of the Sonne, took vpon him the natur of man in that one particular man: and did præferre it vnto the dignitie of the perſon of the Deitie.

Paul commends marriage, yet hee præferres a ſingle life.

[…]; and prævaile with me to præferre a life, that had at leaſt some credit in it, ſome place given it, before a manner of living much diſregarded and diſcountenanc’t.