A treatise of faith : wherein methodically is handled, the nature of true, saving, justifying faith, in opposition unto counterfeit ..
A 1654 London treatise on faith by the Puritan writer William Negus, printed by A.M. for a religious readership concerned with saving versus counterfeit belief. The pictures are four large decorative initial letters, all in the same woodcut style, with the letter T framed by ornamental scrollwork of leaves, foliage and dotted fillers. A designer could take from them the sturdy black-and-cream contrast of a seventeenth-century printed initial, with its interlocking strapwork and hatched shading.
