A pastime for parents

Child. I mean so indeed.

Child. I meane so indéed.

Father. Express your meaning more at large in this point.

Father. Expresse your meaning more at large in this point.

Child. When a new impression of any book cometh forth in a fair letter, good print, distinctly versed, well ⟨image 30⟩bound, and guilt, which before was ill printed in a dark letter, ill bound, & covered, we say it is a new book: yet in substance it is the same with the former: the difference is only in the form and outward quality. Likewise when a Painter draweth a dark draught of any kind of Picture in obscure lineaments, and colours, and afterward flourisheth it over with more lively, fresh, and orient colours, here is the same thing in substance, but altered in quality. And thus it fareth betwixt the Covenant of Grace made with our forefathers and us. For the old people which lived under the minority, and wardship of the Church, had a dark draught of Christ, and all the promises made in him. But we have them more clearly and lively set out,¹ And as the Apostle saith, We are not as Moses which put a veil upon his face, &c. But we all behold as a mirror the glory of the Lord with open face. &c. ⟨image 31⟩And again, in divers manners God spake in the old time to our forefathers by the Prophets: but in these last days he hath spoken unto us by his Son most clearly and manifestly