A Confession of Faith/title page details

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A Confession of Faith / Wunnamptamoe Sampooaonk
Westminster Assembly, translated by Grindal Rawson
Note on English title page
Details on the English title page, missing from the John Carter Brown Library and Huntington Library scans.

Manuscript note in John Carter Brown Library copy:

(English title facing the Indian title)

A

Confession

of

Faith

Owned and Consented unto by the

Elders + Messengers

of the Churches
assembled at Boston in New-England
May 12. 1680
Being the Second Session of that

Synod


Eph.4. 5.One faith
Col.2. 5.Joying and beholding your order
and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

Boston

Reprinted by Bartholomew Green, and
John Allen 1699.

An attempt at reading the manuscript note in Huntington Library copy, barely legible in the scan:

A Confession of Faith Owned
+ Consented unto by the Elders
+ Messengers of the Churches
Assembled in Boston in New England
May 12 1680 being Second Session
of that Synod

Description in Samuel A. Green's A Third Supplementary List of Early American Imprints (1903), page 38:

A | Confession | of | Faith | Owned and consented unto by the |
Elders & Messengers | of the Churches | Assembled at Boston
in New England, | May 12. 1680. | Being the Second Session of
that | Synod. | — | [One line from Eph. iv. 5; two lines from
Col. ii. 5.] || Boston. | Re-printed by Bartholomew Green,
and | John Allen. 1699.

Green's description also mentions the border around the English title page.