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Booke of Christian exercise. Part I
A booke of Christian exercise appertaining to resolution, that is, shewing how that wee shoulde resolue our selues to become Christians indeede, by R. P. Perused, and accompanied now with a treatise tending to pacification, by Edmund Bunny.
At Oxford : Printed by Ioseph Barnes, 1585.
[30], 492, [2], 140p, table (double and folded) ; 12mo.
Previously Ee.7.21.
R. P. = Robert Parsons (STC).
Protestant adaptation, by Edmund Bunny, of R. Parsons' "The first booke of the Christian exercise".
Parsons' work was revised and enlarged in 1585 as "A Christian directory".
Title-page line 7 reads "resolue our/"; line 13 reads "EDMVND".
Includes Edmund Bunny's "A treatise tending to pacification", which has own divisional title-page and pagination.
Extensive contemporary ms. annotations.
STC 19359.7; Madan, I, p. 16; ESTC S106445
Bookplate of Eton College.
Waddington bookplate; donated to Eton by Edward Waddington in 1731.
Signature: "Thomas ?Harris".
16th century limp vellum. Marks of ties.
Christian life Protestant authors Early works to 1800.
Parsons, Robert, 1546 - 1610 First booke of the Christian exercise.
First booke of the Christian exercise.
England London.
B9967