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A vindication of the authority, constitution, and laws of the church and state of Scotland : in four conferences, wherein the answer to the dialogues betwixt the Conformist and the Non-conformist, is examined

Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715 · 1673 · Glasgow : R. Sanders · 4 pictures

A 1673 Glasgow polemic by Gilbert Burnet, printed by R. Sanders, defending Scottish church and state law against Non-conformists in a scholarly controversy addressed to educated readers and clergy. The four pictures are typographic ornaments: a foliate cartouche with interlaced initials, a large decorated letter M with a winged face, a small framed letter H with scrolled corners, and a plain heavy W, offering designers a range of early modern printers' ornament and display capitals.

Church and state · Puritans

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