DEDICATION.

...[we may have] a more solid and more extensive [foundation]. On the contrary, indeed, our salvation is from the Jews. original: "salus nostra est ex Judæis"; a quotation from the Gospel of John 4:22 Regarding everything we believe in our Religion, we are not ashamed to depend upon the authority of Moses and the Prophets, whom the Jewish People revere as the principal Ministers of their own Religion. We profess that the Holy Divinity whom we worship (for we worship the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit) is commended to us by the Writings of Moses and the Prophets as the Unique, True, and Supreme God, the Creator and Governor of this Universe. We do not blush to profess that the very Author of our restored Salvation, Jesus Christ, the true Son of God, was born a man among men and a Jew among Jews; he was most clearly designated and depicted by the oracles and ceremonies of that very Jewish Nation. Furthermore, whatever excellence there is in Divine Worship as celebrated by Christians, and whatever it possesses of splendor and decorum—although among us Religion is truly practiced more with piety than with magnificence Vitringa refers here to the "Plain Style" of Reformed/Protestant worship versus the elaborate rituals of other traditions—they acknowledge they received from the Jews. This was the only nation that was in the light for many centuries, while all other men, as many as this world contains, were deserted and destitute of God and wandered in thick darkness. Therefore, we read in the books of Moses how Jacob, seeking the prophetic prayers of his Father Isaac, by the clever advice of his Mother, [clothed] himself in the most precious garments of his Brother Esau...