⚠The page is heavily foxed with numerous ink spots and background noise throughout.

Let it be printed.

original: "Imprimatur." This was the official license required for a book to be published in England.

From Lambeth Palace. December 20, 1667.

Samuel Parker, Domestic Chaplain to the Most Reverend Father and Lord in Christ, Lord Gilbert [Sheldon], by Divine Providence Archbishop of Canterbury. original: "Sam. Parker, R. Rmo. in Christo Patri ac Domino, Domino Gilberto Divina Providentia Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi, a Sacris Domesticis." Samuel Parker (1640–1688) was a theologian who served under Gilbert Sheldon, the Archbishop of Canterbury who oversaw the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral after the Great Fire.

A circular library stamp from the British Museum, featuring a central crown surrounded by text.

K. Finch's Spence?

DIVINE DIALOGUES,

Containing various

Inquiries and Instructions

Concerning the

ATTRIBUTES OF GOD

And his

PROVIDENCE

IN THE

WORLD.

Collected and compiled by the care and industry of

Franciscus Palaeopolitanus. original: "Franciscus Palæopolitanus." This is a Latin pseudonym meaning "Francis of the Ancient City," used by Henry More (1614–1687), a prominent member of the Cambridge Platonists who sought to reconcile faith with the new science of the 17th century.

To which is added

original: "annexed"

A brief discourse on the true grounds of the certainty of faith in matters of religion,

together with a few plain songs or Divine Hymns for the main Holy Days of the year.

The Second Edition.

WISDOM 8:1

This refers to the Wisdom of Solomon, a book found in the Apocrypha.

Wisdom reaches from one end to another mightily; and she orders all things sweetly. original: "Attingit à fine usque ad finem fortiter, & disponit omnia suaviter."

LONDON,

Printed and sold by Joseph Downing in Bartholomew Close

near West Smithfield, 1713.