An A.B.C. for layemen, othervvise called, the lay-mans letters An alphabet for lay-men, deliuering vnto them such lessons as the holy Ghost teaches them in the worde, by thinges sensible, very necessary to be diligently considered.
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An A.B.C. for layemen, othervvise called, the lay-mans letters An alphabet for lay-men, deliuering vnto them such lessons as the holy Ghost teaches them in the worde, by thinges sensible, very necessary to be diligently considered.
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Wither, George, 1540-1605.
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London :: Printed by Robert VValdegraue for Thomas Man and William Brome,
1585.
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Theology, Doctrinal -- Early works to 1800.
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Birdes.
AS the Birdes falleth not into the Snare where no Fowler is:* 1.1 so God reuealeth not his secreates to his people but by his Prophets. Sparrowes and other small birdes taken by the Fowler and offered to be sold, should make vs cal to mind how prouident and carefull a Father we haue in heauen,* 1.2 whose prouidence stretcheth it selfe to the smallest thinges vppon the earth, for not one of these poore birdes are caught without the will of our heauenly Father.
When we see birdes flie to their nestes, then are we thankfully to remember to how vile,* 1.3 pore and base estate, our Sauiour Christ abased him∣selfe,
that he might enriche vs, seeing he had no place of his owne in the earth to rest his head in, So that in worldly respect he was worse proui∣ded for then poore birdes.
Further,* 1.4 our preposterous care in heaping vp goodes for our selues and our posterity, is rebu∣ked by the poore foules of the ayre, who notwith∣standing they looke but for their present necessi∣tie, yet God feedeth them.