The substance of Christian religion soundly set forth in two bookes, by definitions and partitions, framed according to the rules of a naturall method, by Amandus Polanus professor of diuinitie. The first booke concerneth faith. The second concerneth good workes. The principall pointes whereof are contained in a short table hereunto annexed. Translated out of Latin into English by E.W.
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- The substance of Christian religion soundly set forth in two bookes, by definitions and partitions, framed according to the rules of a naturall method, by Amandus Polanus professor of diuinitie. The first booke concerneth faith. The second concerneth good workes. The principall pointes whereof are contained in a short table hereunto annexed. Translated out of Latin into English by E.W.
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- Polanus von Polansdorf, Amandus, 1561-1610.
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- Imprinted at London :: By R. F[ield] for Iohn Oxenbridge dwelling in Paules churchyard, at the signe of the Parrot,
- 1595.
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- Theology, Doctrinal -- Early works to 1800.
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"The substance of Christian religion soundly set forth in two bookes, by definitions and partitions, framed according to the rules of a naturall method, by Amandus Polanus professor of diuinitie. The first booke concerneth faith. The second concerneth good workes. The principall pointes whereof are contained in a short table hereunto annexed. Translated out of Latin into English by E.W." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09819.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.
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TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE AND HIS VERIE GOOD LORD, THE LORD Edward Earle of Bedford: and to the right honorable also and vertuous Ladie, the Ladie Lucie his wife, E. W. wisheth all growth of goodnesse in this life, and in the end euerlasting blessednesse through Christ.
MAy it please your HH. to vnderstand, that hauing by my fathers appointmēt for exercise sake, accor∣ding to my poore skill, translated out of Latin into English, this worthy worke following: and God ha∣uing besides prepared a way (when I did neither thinke nor know of it) to bring it to light & sight of men, by putting it into Print, I bethought my selfe, as well as my want of yeares & discretion would suffer me, of some worthy persons & patrōs to whom I might dedicate these my simple labours. Amōgst many none came more
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oftē & more iustly into my remēbrance, thā your HH. whose affectiō in the Lord to my father, and some measure of Chri∣stian care for me in the world, haue made me bold, & euen as it were to presume, to dedicate these simple fruits of my first tra∣uailes vnto you. What reasons I haue besides those alledged to lead me thereto, I shall not need largely to lay out. Your HH. zeale to Religion: your fauours to me, as also some declaration of all du∣tifull thankefulnesse from my selfe to∣wards you for the same haue greatly pro∣uoked me. In whō though there be no∣thing as in regard of my selfe and paines taken herein, that may commend it, yet as in respect of the worke it selfe, sure I am, not by mine owne iudgement I pro∣test (for how weake and childish that is, I very well know) but by the sentence of sundry very learned men, both for the soundnesse and sufficiencie of the things therein contained, as also for the metho∣dicall maner of handling the same, there will be found much that may well be∣seeme your HH. profession and place. And so earnestly praying the good ac∣ceptation
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of that which is done, that vn∣der your HH. patronage it may be the better receiued amongst men: and hum∣bly beseeching the continuance of your HH. fauours, that so I may the better proceede in godlinesse and learning, whereunto my parents, though not able indeede of themselues to maintaine me therein, haue vnfainedly dedicated me, & I my self haue willingly vowed my selfe; and hartily crauing pardon for my bold∣nesse & scapes this or any other way cō∣mitted, I humbly end.
At Londō the first of this Ianuarie. 1595.
Your HH. humble and dutifull as he is much bound. Elijahu Wilcocks.