The Reformed Librarie-Keeper (1650)

The Reformed Librarie-Keeper by John Dury is Dury's letter to a friend about his reflections after coming closer to God, and reveling in his understanding of God's Word. Excerpt: «Learned Reader! These Tracts are the fruits of some of my Sollicitations and Negotiations for the advancement of Learning. And I hope they may in time become somewhat effectual to rais thy Spirit to the expectation of greater things, which may be raised upon such grounds as these. All which are but preparatives towards that perfection which wee may expect by the advancement of the Kingdom of Christ, wherein the Communion of Saints, by the graces of the Spirit, will swallow up all these poor Rudiments of knowledge, which wee now grope after by so many helps; and till then in those endeavors I rest in the Truth.»