SOURCE: Masten, Jeffrey. “Family Values: Euthanasia, Editing, and The Old Law.” Textual Practice 9, no. 3 (1995): 445-58.

In the following essay, Masten considers variations in two early editions of The Old Law.

GOD hath left his Maiestie a Sonne; a Prince, as in outward Liniaments, so in inward Abiliments, (I need say no more) an Alter-Idem, a second-selfe.

[God] wrote, and the writing was the writing, saith Moses, of God; … the matter was in Stone cut into two Tables, and the Tables were the worke of God written on both sides. Diuines hold, that the Heart is the principall Seate of the Soule; which Soule of ours is the immediate worke of God, as these Tables were the immediate worke of his owne fingers. … And certainely from this little Library, that God hath erected within vs, is the foundation of all our Learning layd. …

James Montagu, Bishop of Winchester, ‘Preface...