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A potacio[n] or dry[n]king for this holy time of le[n]t very co[m]fortable for all…A potacio[n] or dri[n]kynge for this holi time of le[n]t very co[m]fortable for all…
A potacio[n] or dry[n]king for this holy time of le[n]t very co[m]fortable for all penitent sinners, newly prepared by Theodore Basil.A potacio[n] or dri[n]kynge for this holi time of le[n]t very co[m]fortable for all penitent synners, newly prepared by Theodore Basille.
printed for Joha, 1542printed for Ioha, 1542
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
PHIL. Although I doubt not but that ye retain them all in your memory right well, yet by your patience I will now rehearse them again to you in few words.
PHIL. Although I doubte not but that ye retayne them all in youre memorye right wel, yet by your paciēce I wyl now reherse thē agayne to you ī few wordes.
CHRI. I pray you let it be so.
CHRI. I praye you let it be so.
PHIL. In the first dish it was set be 1fore you, ye tasted of the fall of our fore father Adā. In that ye learned, how that by the sin of Adam we all were ⟨image 10⟩not only deprived of, immortality & 2all goodness, but also damned, so that we became very flesh, without the spirit of God, utterly estranged from all fear of God, & borne the sons 3of wrath, inasmuch that we being left to our selves, could never have been delivered from that miserable captivity, into the which Satan had cast us, through the transgression of God's commandment, but daily more & more we must needs have precipitated & cast our selves headlong in to an hell of evils. Therefore because ye should not despair, I brought forth to you your second dish, where in I declared & proved unto you by the holy scripture and the ancient Doctors, that wha• we were in this miserable & piteous case, God of his great mercies without our merits or deservings had pity on us, & promised