The sacred doctrine of diuinitie, gathered out of the word of God. Sir Henry Finch, 1613

Felix Kyngston, 1613.The sacred doctrine of diuinitie, gathered out of the word of God, and comprehended in two volumes whereof this first volume, containeth a description of all that holy doctrine according to the rules of art: with a treatise concerning the olde Testament, or the promise. The second is to containe a larger explication of the former doctrines: with a discouerie of the most principall heresies and errours contrary thereunto. Imprinted at London : by Felix Kyngston, 1613. Quarto. Full leather with raised bands and period style leather label. [4], 20, 24, 29-44, 40-69, 100-101, 72-112 p. Sometimes erroneously attributed to Dudley Fenner, who the preface of the first edition (STC 10872.5), dated 1 Jan. 1589, mentions as having died three years previously. The second volume spoken of in the title is STC 7148. According to ESTC: ¿Most copies are anonymous; British Library copy retains [par.]2, conjugate with with [par.]3, with dedication by Finch to Thomas [Egerton] Lord Ellsmere. Headpiece on [par.]3r varies; center has vase or has fleur-de-lis; both at Princeton. One Bodelian Library copy has erroneously inserted the Latin verse dedication by J. Gordon belonging to STC 12056 and has an extra leaf of errata at end¿. A scarce book at any rate with only 1 US location recorded in Boston and a handful in the UK