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... never have been brought to agree with Hobbes , the champion of a monarchy in which no misconduct on the monarch's part could give the subjects any right to resist . For proof , then , of Selden's religious faith we must look elsewhere ...
... never have been brought to agree with Hobbes , the champion of a monarchy in which no misconduct on the monarch's part could give the subjects any right to resist . For proof , then , of Selden's religious faith we must look elsewhere ...
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... never been popular , and is never likely to be . His reputation , like that of Johnson , depends more upon what has been written about him or has fallen from him in con- versation , than upon any writings of his own . This is due , in ...
... never been popular , and is never likely to be . His reputation , like that of Johnson , depends more upon what has been written about him or has fallen from him in con- versation , than upon any writings of his own . This is due , in ...
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... never was a more learned clergy , and that no one taxes them with ignorance . In the discourse on Preaching , it first condemns and then recom- mends preaching often in the same sense . In its defence of duelling , in its explanation of ...
... never was a more learned clergy , and that no one taxes them with ignorance . In the discourse on Preaching , it first condemns and then recom- mends preaching often in the same sense . In its defence of duelling , in its explanation of ...
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... never be a priest ; because their priests were born so , not made . 1 But that tis , S. ] H. and H. 2 , omit ' that . ' 1.5 . The meaning of the phrase is & c . ] Selden , in his De Successione in Pontificatum Ebraeorum , says that the ...
... never be a priest ; because their priests were born so , not made . 1 But that tis , S. ] H. and H. 2 , omit ' that . ' 1.5 . The meaning of the phrase is & c . ] Selden , in his De Successione in Pontificatum Ebraeorum , says that the ...
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... never any ecclesiastical jurisdiction for as soon as he was electus confirmatus , that is , after the three proclamations in Bow - church , he might exercise jurisdiction , before he was consecrated ; but till then1 he was no bishop ...
... never any ecclesiastical jurisdiction for as soon as he was electus confirmatus , that is , after the three proclamations in Bow - church , he might exercise jurisdiction , before he was consecrated ; but till then1 he was no bishop ...
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Page 202 - And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so ? 23 Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil : but if well, why smitest thou me?
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