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The Protestant school, or, A method, containing several forms of prayer, psalms, lessons, thanksgivings,…
The Protestant school, or, A method, containing several forms of prayer, psalms, lessons, thanksgivings, and graces for the bringing up and well grounding children and elder persons in the Protestant religion by the Bishop Usher. Also a catalogue of all the English words beginning with one syllable, and proceeding by degrees to eight ... : to which is added an historical account of several plots and remarkable passages from Queen Elizabeth to this present time ... by Moses Lane.
London: printed for Langly Curtiss, 1681
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.
To all True English PROTESTANTS.
I Do here Present you with a piece of True Orthography, more Complete than any yet Extant; and more delightful and pleasant to the Reader and Writer, by those Embellishments which I thought necessary: •nd as there is a Method and Order to be observed in all arts, for the Practitioners more facile attaining the effects of his Endeavours; so is there no less an […] to be propounded, in aiming at the true Course of […] and Religion, which Rules and Methods are here laid […] by the most Reverend and Pious Bishop Usher, •hose delight was in laying down the Principles and foundation of Christian Religion, imitating the Blessed apostle, St. Paul, 1 Cor. 3.10. According to the •race of God, which is given unto me, as a wise •aster-Builder I have laid the Foundation: Which •round-Work he laid so firm, that like a Rock it will […] to Future Ages.
I Do here Present you with a piece of True Orthography, more Complete than any yet Extant; and more delightful and pleasant to the Reader and Writer, by those Imbellishments which I thought necessary: •nd as there is a Method and Order to be observed in all •rts, for the Practitioners more facile attaining the ef••cts of his Endeavours; so is there no less an 〈…〉 to be propounded, in aiming at the true Course of 〈…〉 and Religion, which Rules and Methods are here laid 〈…〉 by the most Reverend and Pious Bishop Usher, •hose delight was in laying down the Principles and oundation of Christian Religion, imitating the Blessed postle, St. Paul,