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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90624	A vindication of The preacher sent, or A vvarrant for publick preaching without ordination. Wherein is further discovered. 1. That some gifted men unordained, are Gospel preachers. 2. That officers sustain not a relation (as officers) to the universal Church; and other weighty questions concerning election and ordination, are opened and cleared. In answer to two books. 1. Vindiciæ ministrij evangelici revindicatæ or the Preacher (pretendly) sent, sent back again. By Dr. Colling of Norwich. 2. Quo warranto, or a moderate enquiry into the warrantableness of the preaching of gifted and unordained persons. By Mr. Pool, at the desire and appointment of the Provincial Assembly of London. With a reply to the exceptions of Mr. Hudson and Dr. Collings against the epistle to the preacher sent. / Published by Frederick Woodal, minister of the Gospel at Woodbridge in Suffolk. Samuel Petto minister of the GospeI [sic] at Sandcraft in Suffolk.	Woodall, Frederick, b. 1614.; Petto, Samuel, 1624?-1711.	1659 (1659)	Wing P1902; Thomason E1728_2; ESTC R204138	152,808	253

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p._n 2._o pag._n 432._o trelcatius_n instit_fw-la theol._n l._n 2._o pag._n 204_o 205._o duae_fw-la sunt_fw-la causae_fw-la cur_n inter_fw-la suum_fw-la &_o christi_fw-la baptismum_fw-la distinguat_fw-la pri●r_fw-la ut_fw-la notet_fw-la differentiam_fw-la inter_fw-la baptismum_fw-la extrenum_fw-la aquae_fw-la &_o baptismum_fw-la internum_fw-la spiritus_fw-la altera_fw-la ut_fw-la distinguat_fw-la inter_fw-la personam_fw-la &_o officium_fw-la suum_fw-la &_o inter_fw-la personam_fw-la &_o ●fficium_fw-la christi_fw-la etc._n etc._n qui_fw-la patris_fw-la de_fw-fr discrimine_fw-la utriusque_fw-la baptismi_fw-la egerunt_fw-la aut_fw-la de_fw-la circumstantiis_fw-la &_o modo_fw-la patefactionis_fw-la christi_fw-la egerunt_fw-la tantum_fw-la non_fw-la de_fw-la substantia_fw-la aut_fw-la efficatia_fw-la ut_fw-la origines_fw-la justi●us_n nazianzenus_n chrysost_n cyrillus_n aut_fw-la de_fw-la baptismo_fw-la sive_fw-la externo_fw-la johannis_n sive_fw-la interno_fw-la christi_fw-la 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