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A three-fold treatise
A three-fold treatise containing the saints sure and perpetual guide. Self-enriching examination. Soul-fating fasting. Or, meditations, concerning the word, the sacrament of the Lords Supper, and fasting. By the labours of that late Reverend, and learned divine, Master Robert Bolton ...A three-fold treatise containing the saints sure and perpetuall guide. Selfe-enriching examination. Soule-fatting fasting. Or, meditations, concerning the word, the sacrament of the Lords Supper, and fasting. By the labours of that late Reverend, and learned divine, Master Robert Bolton ...
London: printed by E. Purslow for Ralph Harford, 1634London: printed by E. Purslow for Raphe Harford, 1634
Title page typeset from the transcription.
THE SAINTS SURE AND PERPETUAL GUIDE.THE SAINTS SVRE AND PERPETVALL GVIDE.
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.
This whole Psalm doth consist of 22.1 Parts or Portions of Staves, or Octaves, even just so many as there be Letters in the Hebrew Alphabet; and every Portion containeth in it eight Verses; and every Verse of every Portion, or Staff, begins with the same Hebrew Letter. The which special and extraordinary penning and disposing of ⟨p. 3⟩the Psalm,2 doth declare and set out unto us these three things:
This whole Psalme doth consist of 22.1 Parts or Portions of Staves, or Octaves, even just so many as there be Letters in the Hebrew Alphabet; and every Portion containeth in it eight Verses; and every Verse of every Portion, or Staffe, begins with the same Hebrew Letter. The which speciall and extraordinarie penning and disposing of ⟨p. 3⟩the Psalme,2 doth declare and set out unto us these three things:
- 1The Division of it.
- 2Three Lessons to be learned thence.
1 The diligent intention of mind, and careful meditation of the Author, in the framing and composing of it.
1 The diligent intention of mind, and carefull meditation of the Author, in the framing and composing of it.