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A60381
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Animadversions on the eight theses laid down, and the inferences deduced from them in a discourse entitl'd Church-Government part V, lately printed at Oxford
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Smalridge, George, 1663-1719.
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1687
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Wing S4001; ESTC R19272
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free_a and_o valid_a especial_o as_o to_o their_o establish_v such_o regal_a injunction_n now_o how_o this_o be_v pertinent_a to_o our_o case_n i_o can_v by_o no_o mean_n conjecture_v for_o it_o have_v be_v show_v that_o neither_o be_v the_o anti-reforming_a bps._n unjust_o depose_v nor_o the_o reformer_n unjust_o introduce_v but_o what_o he_o mean_v by_o the_o clergy_n be_v threaten_v with_o fine_n imprisonment_n and_o deprivation_n in_o case_n of_o their_o nonconformity_n to_o the_o prince_n injunction_n may_v be_v learn_v from_o another_o passage_n in_o his_o discourse_n where_o he_o tell_v we_o that_o the_o clergy_n be_v condemn_v in_o the_o king_n bench_n in_o a_o praemunire_n for_o acknowledge_v the_o cardinal_n power_n legantine_n and_o so_o become_v liable_a at_o the_o king_n pleasure_n to_o the_o imprisonment_n of_o their_o person_n and_o confiscation_n of_o their_o estate_n 26._o do_v to_o release_v themselves_o of_o this_o praemunire_n give_v the_o king_n the_o title_n of_o 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