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A Summe of Christian Doctrine

Peter Canisius, translated by Henry Garnet

Henry Garnet's English translation (London, secret press, c. 1592-96) of St Peter Canisius's Summa doctrinae christianae, the great catechism of the Counter-Reformation: five chapters on faith (the Creed), hope (the Our Father and Hail Mary), charity (the Commandments and precepts of the Church), the sacraments and Christian justice, with an appendix on the fall of man and justification, and the translator's exposition of hallowed creatures, pilgrimage and indulgences. In the original spelling, with the marginal references as notes.

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Source: EEBO-TCP Phase II A69066, 'A summe of Christian doctrine' (STC 4553 et al.), keyed from ProQuest page images; CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication. Tier A: a 1590s text. Early-modern spelling kept (long s as s; u/v and i/j as printed); the printer's macron abbreviations are expanded to n or m, line-end hyphens joined, illegible characters dropped. The marginal references are footnotes; the tables of contents are left out. Not the Latin: Garnet's text is a translation of the Summa, not chapter for chapter the 1566 Latin.