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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.
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 4to save us through his entirely beloved Son, our LORD and saviour ⟨image 11⟩Jesus Christ. Which thing according to his promise at the time predefined & afore appointed came undoubtedly to pass. Than in your third dish did I express to you, by what means ye might come by & obtain these so large & so bounteous benefits of God the father through Jesus Christ. I said unto you, that the next & the most ready way to get this kindness at the hand of God is to repent & believe, that is to say, to be