Author: Calvert, Tho.
Title: Heart-Salve for a Wounded Soul... Or Meditations of Comfort for the Holy Living, and Happy Dying Christian; Either in the Depths of Dark Desertion, or in the Height of Heaven's Glorious Union. The Second Edition, with an Addition of an Elegy Upon an Eminent Occasion" Together with "Eye-Salve for the Blind World: Or, an Excitation to the Secure World, to See and Fear the Judgements of God Are a Coming Upon It, When God Frequently Calls His Rare Saints by Death to Go out of It
Description: London, Printed by Fr. Leech for Th. Passenger, at the Signe of the Three Bibles Upon London-Bridge, 1675. Second edition; lacking one of two separate title pages, else complete (title from ESTC catalog record); 5 1/2 x 3; continuous pagination - pp. [26], 1-160, [9]; rebound in pebbled, purple cloth and 1/4 polished calf; red morocco label with gilt title and four raised bands to spine; illustrated with woodcut borders at beginning of chapters; leather scrathced, with a few small nicks and cuts to tips; smudges and spots to first and last few leaves, else text clean; several period annotations, including a previous owner's note: "Robert Rawlings, his book, 1722, On Board His Maj. Ship Ipswich;" overall in very good condition. Thomas Calvert (1606 - 1679) was a Noncomformist divine, serving as Vicar of Trinity Church in the King's Court at York, before being banished by the Five Mile Act. Among his works were the current two meditations - sermons on Psalm 143:7 and Isaiah 57:1. (ESTC R230932). Very good .

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