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A pastime for parents
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.
London: printed by T. East for Thomas Man, 1606
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.
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 manifestly2
Child. When a new impression of any booke commeth forth in a fayre letter, good print, distinctly versed, well ⟨image 30⟩bound, and guilt, which béefore was ill printed in a darke letter, ill bound, & couered, wée say it is a new booke: yet in substance it is the same with the former: the difference is onely in the forme and outward qualitie. Likewise when a Paynter draweth a darke draught of any kinde of Picture in obscure lineaments, and colours, and afterward flourisheth it ouer with more liuely, fresh, and orient colours, héere is the same thing in substance, but altered in qualitie. And thus it fareth béetwixt the Couenant of Grace made with our forefathers and vs. For the oulde people which liued vnder the minoritie, and wardshippe of the Church, had a darke draught of Christ, and all the promises made in him. But wée haue them more clearely and liuely set out,