Excerpt from The Master Library, Vol. 1: Leaders of Olden Days To give the volume such wealth of external charm that its truths might attract and appeal to folk to whom any book must have been a strange, if not an unknown object, was the task of Tyndale and Coverdale; but to appeal to readers in an age when books have become so plentiful that only the most attractive ones and those most helpfully arranged are read, is the task of the modern editor. Such is the purpose of the present work. With this purpose in mind, the Editors have endeavored to combine in the master library the true and the beautiful just as Tyndale did in the earliest edition of our English Bible; for they believe, as he believed, that for the task of spreading a knowledge of the Word abroad, truth allied with beauty is mightier than truth alone. If, as a great authority has said, the neglected classics of our time are those of the Bible, it is thought that the devices of modern printing and illustration herein employed will reveal to readers everywhere beauties and treasures which heretofore they have not discovered in the Bible, and help to make it for them the Master Classic indeed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.