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A17442 Adelphomachia, or, The warrs of Protestancy being a treatise, wherein are layd open the wonderfull, and almost incredible dissentions of the Protestants among themselues, in most (if not all) articles of Protesta[n]cy, and this proued from their owne wordes & writinges / vvritten by a Cath. priest ; whereunto is adioyned a briefe appendix, in which is proued, first, that the ancient fathers, by the acknowledgments of the learned Protestants, taught our Cath. and Roman fayth, secondly, that the said fathers haue diuers aduantages about the Protestant writers, for finding out the true sense of the Scripture. B. C. 1637 (1637) STC 4263.7; ESTC S1838 109,763 196

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extraordinary_a calling_n as_o be_v send_v from_o no_o man_n but_o only_o from_o god_n in_o these_o word_n quia_fw-la 13._o quia_fw-la lascitius_fw-la the_o protestant_a recite_v this_o say_n of_o caluin_n l._n de_fw-fr russorum_fw-la &_o muscovit_fw-la religione_fw-la c._n 13._o papa_n tyrannide_fw-la etc._n etc._n because_o through_o the_o tyranny_n of_o the_o pope_n true_a succession_n of_o ordination_n be_v break_v of_o therefore_o we_o stand_v in_o need_n of_o a_o new_a course_n herein_o and_o this_o function_n or_o call_v be_v altogether_o extraordinary_a in_o this_o opinion_n conspire_v most_o other_o protestant_n especial_o of_o the_o more_o earnest_a sort_n according_a hereto_o m._n perkins_n 916._o perkins_n in_o his_o work_n print_v anno_o 605._o fol._n 916._o write_v that_o the_o call_n of_o wicliffe_n hus_n luther_n oecolampadius_n peter_n martyr_n etc._n etc._n be_v extraordinary_a and_o doctor_n fulke_n jump_v with_o the_o former_a say_v the_o 2._o the_o against_o 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