The Doctrine of the Three Sacred Persons, Title page – To the reader 2
TER TRIA: OR THE DOCTRINE OF THE Three Sacred Perſons, FATHER, SON, & SPIRIT. Principall Graces, FAITH, HOPE, & LOVE. Main Duties,
PRAYER,
HEARING,
and MEDITATION.
Summarily Digeſted for the Pleaſure and Profit of the Pious and Ingenious Reader.
By Faithfull Teate Preacher of the Word at Sudbury in Suffolk.
TRIA SUNT OMNIA.
LONDON, Printed for George Sawbridg at the Sign of the Bible on Ludgate Hill. 1658.
ILLUSTRISSIMO DOMINO Dno Henrico Cromwell, DIGNISSIMO HIBERNIAE PRAEFECTO SACROSANCTAE INDIVISAE QUE TRINITATIS CULTORI INDIVISO TRIPLICI DIVINARm GRATIARm Coronâ ORNATISSmo TRIBUS Que Apprime Chriſtianis OFFICIIS INTEGERRIME DEDITO, TRIPLECEM HANC TRIADEM SACRORm POEMATm CHRISTIANAE DOCTRINAE SUMMAMIN SUMMAE OBSERVANTIAE TESTIMONIUM Humillm.
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L. M. D. D. D.
THE AUTHOR TO THE READER.
OFt have I ſeen Luxuriant Vitious Wit
A wanton Rape on a fair Muſe commit:
At once diſtaining, by leud Poetrie,
The Writers Paper-ſheets, and Readers Eye.
And may not I oblige the thrice three Muſes
Chaſtly to ſerve ſo Sacred thrice three Uſes?
Is the grave Body of Divinity
Leſs Currant for the feet of Poetry?
Are Truths, for being ſhort and ſweet, leſs ſound?
Or ſtreames, for running ſmoothly, leſs profound?
David a Prophet, yet in Verſe excels:
'Twas ECCLESIASTES made the Canticles.
To the Pious and Ingenious Authour of this Tripartite Poem.
BEfore your triple Poems I admit,
Theſe Votes made up of Threes, may well be writ.
May Ʋnderſtanding, Will, and Memory
Know, Love, and hold thy Sacred Poetry.
May Heav'n be th' fuller, Earth the better, Hell
The thinner, by the Truths, you write ſo well.
May pride of life, the luſts of fleſh and eye,
Be poyſon'd by theſe leaves of thine, and die.
If any other three, I'de wiſh were down,
'Tis Auſtria, Spain, the Pope with' striple Crown.
This latter Vote if th' King of Kings would make
An Act, I'de willingly the Earth forſake.
W. Jenkyn.
Ingenious Reader.
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