A survey of the summe of church-discipline. Wherein the way of the churches of New-England is warranted out of the Word, and all exceptions of weight, which are made against it, answered: Whereby also it will appear to the judicious reader, that something more must be said, then yet hath been, before their principles can be shaken, or they should be unsetled in their practice
A 1648 London printing by Thomas Hooker, a Puritan minister, defending the church practices of New England for an English Protestant readership. The pictures are four small woodcut decorative initials, the large capital letters that open sections of text, in a mix of strapwork, foliage and scrollwork. A designer could take from them the dense black-and-white ornament of seventeenth-century letter blocks, useful for display capitals, drop caps and historical borders.
