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Preface Marriage Sermon by Tho. Grantham
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1641
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"No title" In: Grantham, Thomas. A Marriage Sermon. A sermon called A Wife mistaken, or a Wife and no Wife: or Leah in stead of Rachel; A Sermon accused for Railing against Women; for maintaining Polygamie, many Wives, for calling Iacob a Hocus-Pocus. [...]
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Wing G1553
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Sample 1
The original format is quarto.
The original contains first paragraphas are introduced by decorated initial,contains elements such as italics,
To the Reader.
REader, this Sermon was moredisfigured then Davids Servants
were by Hanun when he
shaved off the one halfe of their
beards, and cut off their Garments in the
middle even to this Buttocks. 2. Sam.
IC.4. So shaved, so cut, so ridiculously
mangled was this Sermon, that when I saw
it I could not tell whether I should laugh
or cry. Thou knowest the Learning,
Zeale, Patience, Apologies of the
Saints have beene brought forth by the
Herisies, Vices, Tyrannies, Slanders
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of the Times; so comes out this LittleWorke ambitious onely to bee a Saver,
which if thy discretion in judgings
will strive to make, I shall be thine,
or else hold thee like one of those who
condemned it: But
Id quod dicere nolo.