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A29766 Jerubbaal, or, A vindication of The sober testimony against sinful complyance from the exceptions of Mr. Tombs in answer to his Theodulia : wherein the unlawfulness of hearing the present ministers is more largely discussed and proved : the arguments produced in the sober testimony reinforced, the vanity of Mr. Tombs in his reply thereunto evinced, his sorry arguments for hearing fully answered : the inconsistency of Mr. T., his present principles and practices with passages in his former writings remarked, and manifested in an appendix hereunto annexed. Brown, Robert. 1668 (1668) Wing B5047; ESTC R224311 439,221 497

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bishop_n bilson_n answer_n for_o i_o primo_fw-la populus_fw-la ipse_fw-la deficiente_fw-la magistratu_fw-la christiano_n deserere_fw-la falsos_fw-la et_fw-la improbos_fw-la pastor_n jure_fw-la divino_fw-la potest_fw-la coercere_fw-la vero_fw-la minime_fw-la declinare_fw-la et_fw-la derelinquere_fw-la eos_fw-la possunt_fw-la cogere_fw-la aut_fw-la pnnire_fw-la non_fw-la possunt_fw-la vis_fw-fr &_o vindicte_fw-la gladio_fw-la alligatae_fw-la extra_fw-la privatorum_fw-la sortem_fw-la ac_fw-la caetum_fw-la collocata_fw-la sunt_fw-la unde_fw-la paulus_n rom._n 16._o observate_a eos_fw-la qui_fw-la dissidia_fw-la &_o scandala_fw-la contra_fw-la doctrinam_fw-la quam_fw-la edocti_fw-la estis_fw-la faciunt_fw-la &_o declinare_fw-la ab_fw-la iis_fw-la oves_fw-la meae_fw-la inquit_fw-la dominus_fw-la noster_fw-la vocem_fw-la meam_fw-la audiunt_fw-la &_o sequuntur_fw-la i_o alienum_fw-la autem_fw-la nequaquam_fw-la sequentur_fw-la sed_fw-la fugient_fw-la ab_fw-la eo_fw-la idem_fw-la cyprianus_n 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