This book is entitled after the name of Ruth: which is the principal person spoken of in this treatise. Wherein also figuratively is set forth the state of the Church which is subject to manifold afflictions, and yet at length God giveth good and joyful issue: teaching us to abide with patience till God deliver us out of troubles. Herein also is described how Jesus Christ, who according to the flesh ought to come of David, proceeded of Ruth, of whom the Lord Jesus did vouchsafe to come, notwithstanding she was a Moabite of base condition, and a stranger from the people of God: declaring unto us thereby that the Gentiles should be sanctified by him and joined with his people, and that there should be but one sheepfold, and one shepherd. And it seemeth that this history apperteineth to the time of the Judges.