Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts and Opinions of Old English Books With Original Disquisitions, Articles of Biography, and Other Literary Antiquities
Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts and Opinions of Old English Books With Original Disquisitions, Articles of Biography, and Other Literary Antiquities
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1808 edition. Excerpt: ...and felicitie. I knowe, mi most discret and vertuous master, that some amonge other shall be fonde, readie to blame this worke, bringinge for them, that no nede it was of suche purtreatures, sith we haue at Jibertie theself stories, wherein we mai much better knowe the pure truth reding the wholl, then ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1808 edition. Excerpt: ...and felicitie. I knowe, mi most discret and vertuous master, that some amonge other shall be fonde, readie to blame this worke, bringinge for them, that no nede it was of suche purtreatures, sith we haue at Jibertie theself stories, wherein we mai much better knowe the pure truth reding the wholl, then to staie at a thinge uncertaine and drawen at pleasure: Some other shall be (knowe I well) wiche shall endeuer themselues to sai, that it is a thinge openlie forbiden be the lawe of God, and all thought the strong and faithfull mai without ani danger beholde them, vsing therof after their owne good discretion, that neuerthelesse, being sen of the weake and simple, it mai be vnto them occasion of fall: Other lick wise that, sith the hearing aboue all our fiue naturall wittes most diuin is allone nedfull to saluation, wherwith we, as with an instrument mete, must take and receaue the promesses of God offered and presented vnto vs in the holie scriptures, contenting ourselues we shulde red them, with vnderstanding therto required, and vndertake no further. To whome we, willing most faine them satisfie, aunswer: that, all be it the letter well vnderstanded geueth plaine and perfette knowlege of the thinges, neuerbettelesse the true r 2 and and lyuclye purtreatures and representations therof mai be, and (to sai better) are good and profitable meanes, wherbe we mai shirtlie and with ease, kippe and graue in minde the wboll meaning of it, wiche otherwise without often reding, and with muche werines of witte might easilie be forgotten being vnto vs instede of true, cleare, and manifest argumentes of the wholl subject."--After adducing further reason for describing the punishments inflicted on the children of Israel as examples, and pourtraying...
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