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Sinnes overthrow : or, A godly and learned treatise of mortification ... All being the substance of severall sermons upon Colos. 3. 5

Preston, John, 1587-1628 · 1641 · London : Printed by Richard Badger for Andrew Crooke · 14 pictures

A 1641 London devotional treatise by the Puritan preacher John Preston, printed by Richard Badger for Andrew Crooke, collecting sermons on Colossians 3:5 for English readers. The pictures are decorative woodcut initials and headpieces, with a tall capital T framed by scrolling foliage, curling volutes and fleshy leaves, and a round medallion of a flower bud between stylised leaves; a designer could borrow their dense hatched line work and symmetrical frames for historical borders or capitals.

Bible · Christian life · Puritans · Sermons, English

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