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Record Number: 2388


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

For his carriage and deportment in his Family, it was sober, grave, and very Religious. He there offered up the Morning and Evening Sacrifice of Prayer, and praise continually: so that his House was a little Church. Thrice a day he had the Scriptures read, and after that the Psalm, or Chapter were ended, he used to ask all his children and servants what they remembred, and whatsoever Sentences they rehearsed, he would speak something out of them that might tend to their edification.

Century:

1500-1599, 1600-1699

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1554 and 31 Dec 1634

Country:

England

Time

morning: 3 times a day
afternoon: 3 times a day
evening: 3 times a day
daytime: 3 times a day
night: 3 times a day

Place:

city: Belsted
location in dwelling: at home
other location: parochial house

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

John Carter

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1554

Socio-Economic Group:

Clergy (includes all denominations)

Occupation:

minister

Religion:

Puritan

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

family and servants


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

[n/a]

Title:

Scriptures

Genre:

Bible

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

2388

Source:

Print

Author:

Samuel Clarke

Editor:

n/a

Title:

A collection of the lives of ten eminent divines famous in their generations for learning, prudence, piety, and painfulness in the work of the ministry

Place of Publication:

n/a

Date of Publication:

1662

Vol:

n/a

Page:

[3]

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Samuel Clarke, A collection of the lives of ten eminent divines famous in their generations for learning, prudence, piety, and painfulness in the work of the ministry (1662), p. [3], http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=2388, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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