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Pastorius's Section Header: Out of the Writings of those true Christians whome the World in Scorn calls Quakers, which harmless Name this harmless People cannot but own. - add p. 375. 376. [Books in folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo, broad-side.]
Pastorius's Description: For as much as the Old Index, beginning formerly at this side, was not only too Compact, being pressed together in the narrow Bounds of three Pages, but also defective & without true Alphabetical Order, &c. I at the latter Renewal or Renovation of this Manuscript, (: whereof it is never like to have any more, having had enough already, :) thought it most Convenient & suitable to those hands that will ac-complish this Alvearium, to Remove the said unhandsom & vitious Table, by tearing the same, and prefix a better & Compleater at the very Entrance or Threshold of this Book, to which I refer the inquisitive Reader for his more satisfactory Content. And Whereas (: as Plinius saith, / Ingenuum est Fateri per Quos profeceris / I shall set down the several Authors, out of which this present Hive is collected. - / And ye (: John Samuel & Henry Pastorius, dear & well beloved Children! // At Leasure hours and Candle-light, / When Others play, or lose their Sight; / Read ye these Books, I here have set, / Or other good ones you can get; See pag. 375. 376. 377. 378. 379. 380. / But where you meet an Asterisk * / Think that your Father, being brisk, / Perused them, and like a Bee, / From thence did gather what you see / In hoc Alveario, Favis multifario. / Non sibi, Sed vobis Mellificavit, Apis. / sive potius Apicula Germanopolitana. F. D. P.
Pastorius's Page Number: 56
Section: Quaker Writings
Range: 74 - 105
Type: Book List
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