A treatise of the nature of a minister in all its offices : To which is annexed an answer to Doctor Forbes concerning the necessity of bishops to ordain. Which is an answer to a question proposed in these late unhappy times to the author, What is a minister?
A 1670 London treatise by the Anglican bishop William Lucy, printed by Thomas Ratcliffe, arguing for the nature of the ministry and the necessity of bishops against Puritan critics such as Thomas Hooker and John Forbes. The pictures are small square woodcut initials and a printed ornamental rule, with the first showing scrolling acanthus and a boxed capital I, the second a boxed numeral 1 framed by curling tendrils, and the third a boxed capital T above a vase with flowers and perched birds, all in dense black-and-cream relief that suggests strong figure-ground contrast for panel or border work.
