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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85184	The league illegal. Wherein the late Solemn League and Covenant is seriously examined, scholastically and solidly confuted: for the right informing of weak and tender consciences, and the undeceiving of the erroneous. Written long since in prison, by Daniel Featley D.D. and never until now made known to the world. Published by John Faireclough, vulgò Featley, chaplain to the Kings most Excellent Majesty.	Featley, Daniel, 1582-1645.; Featley, John, 1605?-1666.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)	1660 (1660)	Wing F591; Thomason E1040_8; ESTC R199	47,903	77

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praesumpserat_fw-la sed_fw-la rescissa_fw-la fuit_fw-la ejus_fw-la ordination_n and_o omnes_fw-la ab_fw-la ●o_z constituti_fw-la presbyteri_fw-la in_fw-la laicorum_fw-la ordinem_fw-la redacti_fw-la see_v epiph._n haer._n 75._o the_o order_n of_o bishop_n beget_v father_n in_o the_o church_n but_o the_o order_n of_o presbyter_n son_n in_o baptism_n but_o no_o father_n or_o doctor_n see_v also_o g._n abbot_n in_o his_o tract_n of_o the_o visibility_n of_o the_o church_n and_o in_o his_o answer_n to_o hill_n *_o apol._n confess_v augustan_fw-la c._n de_fw-fr numero_fw-la et_fw-la usu_fw-la sacrament_n not_o saepe_fw-la protestati_fw-la sumn●_z summa_fw-la cum_fw-la voluntate_fw-la conservare_fw-la politiam_fw-la ecclesiasticam_fw-la and_o gradus_fw-la in_fw-la ecclesia_fw-la factos_fw-la etiam_fw-la summa_fw-la authoritate_fw-la scimus_fw-la enim_fw-la utili_fw-la consilio_fw-la ecclesiasticam_fw-la disciplinam_fw-la have_v mode_n quo_fw-la veteres_fw-la eam_fw-la describunt_fw-la constitutam_fw-la *_o luther_n tom._n 2._o p._n 320._o nemo_fw-la contra_fw-la statum_fw-la episcoporum_fw-la et_fw-la veros_fw-la episcopos_fw-la vel_fw-la bonos_fw-la pastor_fw-la dictum_fw-la putet_fw-la quiquid_fw-la contra_fw-la hos_fw-la tyrannos_fw-la dicitur_fw-la †_o gerard_n de_fw-fr ministerio_fw-la eccles._n nemo_fw-la nostrum_fw-la dicit_fw-la nihil_fw-la imeress_fw-la inter_fw-la episcopum_fw-la and_o presbyterum_fw-la sed_fw-la agnoscimus_fw-la distinctionem_fw-la graduum_fw-la propter_fw-la {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o ecclesiae_fw-la ut_fw-la concordia_fw-la conservetur_fw-la *_o calv._n de_fw-fr necess_n reform_v ecclesiae_fw-la talem_fw-la nobis_fw-la hierarchiam_fw-la si_fw-la exhibeant_fw-la in_fw-la qua_fw-la sic_fw-la emin●ant_fw-la episcopi_fw-la ut_fw-la christo_fw-la subesse_fw-la non_fw-la recusent_fw-la ut_fw-la ab_fw-la i●o_fw-la tanquam_fw-la unico_fw-la capite_fw-la pendeant_fw-la et_fw-la ad_fw-la ipsum_fw-la referanty_a in_fw-la qua_fw-la sic_fw-la inter_fw-la se_fw-la fraternam_fw-la societatem_fw-la colant_fw-la ut_fw-la non_fw-la alio_fw-la modo_fw-la quam_fw-la e●us_fw-la verit●te_fw-la sint_fw-la colligati_fw-la tum_fw-la vero_fw-la nullo_fw-la non_fw-la anathemate_fw-la dignos_fw-la fateor_fw-la si_fw-la qui_fw-la erunt_fw-la qui_fw-la noa_fw-la eam_fw-la reverenter_fw-la summaque_fw-la obedientia_fw-la observent_fw-la †_o beza_n de_fw-fr grad._n minist._n evang._n c._n 18._o sess._n 3._o quod_fw-la si_fw-la nunc_fw-la ecclesiae_fw-la instauratae_fw-la anglicanae_fw-la suorum_fw-la episcoporum_fw-la and_o archi_fw-la episcoporum_fw-la authoritate_fw-la suffultae_fw-la perstant_fw-la quemadmodum_fw-la hoc_fw-la illis_fw-la nostra_fw-la memoria_fw-la contigit_fw-la ut_fw-la ejus_fw-la ordinis_fw-la homines_fw-la non_fw-la tantum_fw-la ensign_fw-la dei_fw-la martyr_n sed_fw-la etiam_fw-la praestantissimos_fw-la doctores_fw-la et_fw-la pastor_fw-la habuerit_fw-la etc._n etc._n

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