A64677:902
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.
Example. But when the Husbandmen saw the Son, they said among themselves, this is the Heir, come let us kill him, &c.
Example. But when the Husbandmen saw the Son, they said among them•elves, this is the Heir, come let us kill him, &c.
2. A Semicolon is a Pause longer than a Comma, being a Point with a Comma under it;
Example. As he that giveth to the Poor shall not lack;
3. A Colon stops the Sentence a pretty while, and denotes full but not perfect Sense, and is marked thus: