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england_n	church_n	elder_n	zion_n	34	3	10.4586	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85400	Innocency and truth triumphing together; or, The latter part of an answer to the back-part of a discourse, lately published by William Prynne Esquire, called, A full reply, &c. Beginning at the foot of p. 17. of the said discourse, with this title or superscription, Certain brief animadversions on Mr. John Goodwins Theomachia. Wherein the argumentative part of the said animadversions is examined; together with some few animadversions upon some former passages in the said reply. Licensed and printed according to order.	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1645 (1645)	Wing G1176; Thomason E24_8; ESTC R22666	90,413	109

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meat_n majestas_fw-la realis_fw-la seu_fw-la imper●_n republicae_fw-la est_fw-la coaeva_fw-la quamdiu_fw-la corpus_fw-la ejus_fw-la durat_fw-la per_fw-la manet_fw-la &_o etiam_fw-la sub_fw-la inter_fw-la regnis_fw-la &_o alterationibus_fw-la persistit_fw-la quam_fw-la ideò_fw-la fundamentum_fw-la republicae_fw-la possu●●_n be_v personalis_fw-la conci●●_n cum_fw-la personâ_fw-la &_o ad_fw-la rempublicam_fw-la redit_fw-la huius_fw-la majestatis_fw-la 〈…〉_z etiam_fw-la post_v 〈◊〉_d legem_fw-la populum_fw-la romanum_fw-la aliquam_fw-la retinuesse_fw-mi dicitur_fw-la majestatem_fw-la §_o 4._o 〈…〉_z c._n l._n 7._o §_o 〈…〉_z maj_o statem_fw-la nostram_fw-la f._n the_o captiv_n &_o postium_fw-la l._n 1._o 〈…〉_z majestatem_fw-la publica_fw-la ad_fw-la l._n julian_n majest_n lex_fw-la namque_fw-la regius_fw-la de_fw-la personalis_fw-la 〈…〉_z be_v translatione_fw-la intell_n g●debet_fw-la ego_fw-la in_o tract_n de_fw-fr monarchia_fw-la cap._n 4._o num_fw-la 4._o ac_fw-la 〈…〉_z per_fw-la eam_fw-la populus_fw-la potestatem_fw-la administrationis_fw-la non_fw-la constitutionis_fw-la et_fw-la constat_fw-la ex_fw-la l._n 2_o §_o 1._o 〈…〉_z administrationem_fw-la re_fw-mi publicae_fw-la non_fw-la aliqu●d_fw-la ultrà_fw-la imperatori_fw-la datum_fw-la esse_fw-la christoph_n 〈…〉_z dess●●_n politico_n 〈◊〉_d de_fw-fr majestate_fw-la etc._n etc._n sect._n 1._o p._n 5._o sect._n 60._o 60._o act._n 20._o 28._o 1_o pet._n 5._o 2._o sect._n 61._o mat._n 2._o 6._o 6._o mat._n 20._o 15._o 15._o mark_n 1._o 24._o luke_n 4._o 34._o 34._o procliviores_fw-la sumus_fw-la quaerere_fw-la potiùs_fw-la quid_fw-la contra_fw-la ea_fw-la respondeamus_fw-la quae_fw-la nostro_fw-la objiciuntur_fw-la errori_fw-la quam_fw-la intendere_fw-la ea_fw-la quae_fw-la sunt_fw-la salubria_fw-la ut_fw-la careamus_fw-la errore_fw-la sect._n 64._o

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