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The Protestant School

Name: The Protestant School
Author: James Ussher

This seminal 17th-century educational manual serves as a foundational guide for religious instruction and literacy. Designed to ground young minds in Reformed doctrine, the work blends basic grammar with rigorous theological catechism. It emphasizes the importance of scriptural authority and moral rectitude, reflecting the era's urgent drive to shape a godly society through disciplined learning. Readers interested in the history of education, early modern religious thought, and the development of Anglican identity will find this a fascinating window into how faith and pedagogy once intertwined to forge the character of a nation.

Chapters: 287
Word count: 54,963
Type: Book

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THE PROTESTANT SCHOOL OR, A Method, Containing several Forms of Prayer, Psalms, Lessons, Thanksgivings, and Graces, for the Bringing up, and well Grounding Children and Elder Persons in the Protestant Religion, By the most Reverend and Learned BISHOP USHER: Also a Catalogue of all the English Words, BEGINNING With one Syllable, and proceeding by degrees to Eight, Divided and not Divided; the readiest way for teaching Children and Elder Persons to Spell, Pronounce, Read and Write true English.

To which is Added, An Historical Account of several Plots and remarkable Passages, from Queen Elizabeth to this present Time, Lively Represented in Copper Plates; with an Explanation to every Figure, with Copies of several Hands which are used in England, and many other things which are Useful for so necessary a Work.

Fitted to the Common Use of all English Schools; having a Thousand Words more than any yet Extant.

By Moses Lane, Schoolmaster in London.

LONDON, Printed for Langly Curtiss on Ludgate Hill near Fleet Bridge, 1681.

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