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A pastime for parents

Name: A pastime for parents
Author: Arthur Dent

A pastime for parents: or A recreation to pass away the time; containing the most principal grounds of Christian religion. By Arthur Dent preacher of the word of God at South-Shoobery in Essex.A pastime for parents: or A recreation to passe away the time; contayning the most principall grounds of Christian religion. By Arthur Dent preacher of the word of God at South-Shoobery in Essex.

Arthur Dent d. 1607London: printed by T. East for Thomas Man, 1606

[112] p. · 15k words · STC 6622 · ESTC S116342

Title page of the 1609 edition: Internet Archive scan of the Early English Books microfilm (opens the Internet Archive in a new tab)

A PASTIME for Parents to be used with their children for recreatio…: A PASTIME for Parents to be used with their children for recreation, to pass away the…A PASTIME for Parents to bee vsed with their children for recreatio…: A PASTIME for Parents to bee vsed with their children for recreation, to passe away the…

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.

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Child. The first steppe to eternal life, is for a man to know and feel his misery, and then labour to get out of it.

Child. The first steppe to eternall life, is for a man to know and féele his misery, and then labour to gette out of it.

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Father. How doth a man come to know and feel his misery?

Father. How doth a man come to know and feele his misery?

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Child. By the sound understanding of the law,¹ contained in the ten commandments.

Child. By the sound vnderstanding of the law,¹ contained in the ten commandements.

1Rom. 3. 20.

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