Wickedness.- Knight (William) A Concordance Axiomaticall, Containing a Survey of Theologicall Propositions: With their Reasons and uses in holie Scripture..., first and only edition, text in 3 columns, woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces, lacking final blank, small ink shelf-mark to foot of a2, final f. with small hole affecting few letters, spotting to title and very occasionally elsewhere, water-stain to head throughout but generally small and light, modern half calf, [STC 15049], folio, for John Bill, 1610.

⁂ Only edition of this rare theological treatise in alphabetical order on hundreds of core beliefs and fundamental statements of the Christian faith related to passages of the Bible by their Reason and Use, as the middle columns of each page read. The entries on Jews (over 6pp.) and the Wicked (32pp.) reveal the author's sympathies for the Puritans. Women hardly cover two pages but tend to be of a reproving character. This concordance of axioms was of course intended to be used by ministers in preparing their sermons, and gives the axioms, or doctrines, in plain vernacular phrases.