Certaine plaine, briefe, and comfortable notes, upon every chapter of Genesis. Gathered and layde downe for the good of them that are not able to use better helps,: and yet careful to read the word, and right hartily desirous to taste the sweet of it. By the reverend Father Gervase Babington, late bishop of Landaph, and now of Excester: perused by him againe, and in sundry places enlarged with some additions. At Lon
by BABINGTON, Gervase
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London, Thomas Charde,, 1596.. 1596 4to in 8s. Three items in one volume. Bound in eighteenth century half calf, rubbed . Some wear on edges and corners, front joint tender at head but boards firmly attached. Contents clean and tight, with early marginalia in places. Occasionally trimmed close to catchwords. Babington's works on the Commandments and on the Lords Prayer date from his time spent in the 1580s as chaplain to the Herbert family at Wilton. He published his notes on Genesis in 1592 whilst serving as Bishop of Llandaff. The second edition of 1596 is expanded to more than twice the length of the first printing.
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- Certaine plaine, briefe, and comfortable notes, upon every chapter of Genesis. Gathered and layde downe for the good of them that are not able to use better helps,
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- BABINGTON, Gervase
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- Hardcover
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- London, Thomas Charde,
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- 1596.
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- Calf
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