A69075:231
Christian religion
Christian religion: substantially, methodically[e,] [pla]inlie, and profitably treatisedChristian religion: substantially, methodicalli[e,] [pla]inlie, and profitablie treatised
London: printed by Felix Kingston for Thomas Man, 1611
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
What are the parts of that rude mass?
What are the parts of that rude masse?
Heaven and earth, as it were the centre and circumference: for as the Arch-builders first shadow out in a plot the building they intend, and as the Painters draw certain gross lineaments of that picture which they will after set forth, and fill up with orient colours: so the Lord our God in this stately building and cunning painting of the frame of the world, hath before the most beautiful frame set out as it were a shadow and a common draught thereof.
Heauen and earth, as it were the center and circumference: for as the Arch-builders first shadow out in a plot the building they intend, and as the Painters draw certaine grosse lineaments of that picture which they will after set foorth, and fill vp with orient colours: so the Lord our God in this stately building and cunning painting of the frame of the world, hath before the most beautifull frame set out as it were a shadow and a common draught thereof.
Why is the rude mass called heaven and earth?
Why is the rude masse called heauen and earth?