Concerning a Christians Careful Abstinence from All Appearance of Evil, Title page – Dedication
A TREATISE Concerning A CHRISTIANS CAREFULL ABſtinence from all appearance of Evill: Gathered FOR THE MOST part out of the Schoolemen, and Caſuiſts:
Wherein The Queſtions and Caſes of Conſcience belonging unto the difficult matter of Scandall are briefly reſolved:
By HENRY JEANES, Mr of Arts, lately of Hart-Hall in OXON, and Rector of the Church of Beere-Crocombe in Somerſet-ſhire.
OXFORD, Printed by W. TURNER for H. CURTEINE 1640.
HONORATISSIMO PHILIPPO Comiti Pembrochiae, & Montgom: Illuſtriſſimi Ordinis periſcelidis Equiti: Regiae Familiae Archicamerario: nec non Maj… ſtau Regiae à ſecretioribus Conſiliis, &c.
Honoratiſſime Comes,
IGnoſcar, precor, laeſus honor, tam ſolenni tanti nominis convicio, & impunè liceat auguſtam illam & praenobilem titulorum ſeriem vili huic, & alioqui periturae, chartulae praefigere. Ea ſiquidem obſcura eſt Authoris ſimul & Operis infirmitas, ut prorſus metuat ſine validiore praeſidio in publicum prodire, & perenni gaudeat lucis fugâ, ni precario & praepotente potiatur favoris radio: veſtro ſc, qui malignos quoſcunque Criticorum halitus cohibere valet, & praetenues haſce ſtudiorum Primitias Laetiori meſſe ſecundare. Aggreditur, ſat ſcio, parvulus hic Liber, materiam lubricam & ancipitem, de abſtinentia ab omni ſpecie mali, ſeu de fuga ſcandali, verendumq, eſt, ne apud Cenſores duriuſculos ſcandalū ſibi creet, & faſtidium. Attamen qualis, qualis eſt, tuo ſtipatus patrocinio ſecurè prodit, nec iniqua moratur malevolorum ſcandala, modò ne ſit dignitati veſtrae juſto of fendiculo.
Amplitudini tuae Sacellanus, & Servus omni officii genere obſtrictus, HEN: JEANES.