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A sermon preached before the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city of London at the Guild-Hall Chappel October 26, 1679 by Benjamin Woodroffe ...
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Woodroffe, Benjamin, 1638-1711.
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philopat_fw-la sect._n 2._o p._n 109._o &_o suarez_n in_o libro_fw-la de_fw-la censuris_fw-la disp_n 15._o sect._n 6._o p._n 262._o have_v many_o thing_n to_o the_o same_o sense_n non_fw-la licere_fw-la christianis_fw-la tolerare_fw-la regem_fw-la haereticum_fw-la si_fw-la ille_fw-la conetur_fw-la subditos_fw-la ad_fw-la svam_fw-la haeresin_fw-la protrahere_fw-la bellarm_n de_fw-fr rom._n pontif._n 5._o 7._o sed_fw-la &_o christiani_n principes_fw-la qui_fw-la diu_fw-la in_o ecclesiasticam_fw-la potestatem_fw-la tyrannico_fw-la furore_fw-la surrexerunt_fw-la cvi_fw-la flectere_fw-la genua_fw-la &_o caput_fw-la submittere_fw-la debuerant_fw-la nun_n sacris_fw-la conciliis_fw-la sunt_fw-la depositi_fw-la percussi_fw-la anathemate_fw-la pulsi_fw-la regno_fw-la atque_fw-la imperio_fw-la ut_fw-la ladistaus_n leo_n iii_o henricus_fw-la iii_o fredericus_fw-la ii_o constantinus_n vi_o conc._n t._n 14._o p._n 992._o in_o orat._n cornelii_n episcopi_fw-la bitontini_fw-la 1._o oportere_fw-la 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