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power_n	bind_v	heaven_n	key_n	4,425	5	10.2745	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39282	Vindiciæ catholicæ, or, The rights of particular churches rescued and asserted against that meer (but dangerous) notion of one catholick, visible, governing church ... wherein by Scripture, reason, antiquity, and later writers, first, the novelty, peril, scandal, and untruth of this tenet are cleerly demonstrated, secondly, all the arguments for it, produced by the Rev. Apollonius, M. Hudson, M. Noyes, the London ministers, and others, are examined and dissolved ... / by John Ellis, Jun.	Ellis, John, 1606?-1681.	1647 (1647)	Wing E593; ESTC R18753	75,919	94

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multis_fw-la literum_fw-la relinquamus_fw-la suum_fw-la cuique_fw-la judicium_fw-la propterea_fw-la quod_fw-la nigens_fw-la sit_fw-la rerum_fw-la plurimarum_fw-la obscuritas_fw-la etc._n etc._n ep._n 57_o ad_fw-la dardan_n regulum_fw-la fid●i_fw-la pusillis_fw-la magnisque_fw-la comm●nem_fw-la in_fw-la ecclesiam_fw-la te●●nt_fw-la ●_z usher_n answer_v to_o the_o jesuit_n page_n 418._o rom._n 4._o c._n 15_o 1_o cor._n 8._o c._n 10._o phil._n 3._o 15._o gratian_n considerate_a quarundam_fw-la controver_n ad_fw-la regimen_fw-la ecclesia_fw-la dei_fw-la spectant_fw-la quae_fw-la in_fw-la anglia_fw-la agitantur_fw-la edit._n 1644._o conclus_fw-la 3._o 2._o the_o first_o author_n of_o this_o opinion_n apollonius_n hudson_n the_o assembly_n of_o divine_n m_o noyes_n minister_n of_o london_n m._n vv._n sometime_o of_o this_o parliament_n 3._o prov._n 15._o 22_o 4._o *_o m._n hudson_n term_n expl_fw-mi 1._o church_n *_o so_o tilenus_n syntag._n thes._n de_fw-fr eccles._n calvine_n and_o other_o add_v sacrament_n and_o some_o discipline_n but_o these_o as_o note_n not_o as_o formal_a cause_n of_o it_o 2._o oneness_n {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o act_n 17._o 26._o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o 3._o universality_n vniversalium_fw-la fundamentum_fw-la in_fw-la rebus_fw-la forma_fw-la in_fw-la mente_fw-la 4._o visibility_n 5._o church_n power_n state_n of_o the_o quest_n baynes_n diocese_n pag._n 21._o declar._n h._n com._n about_o the_o disposal_n of_o the_o king_n person_n defensio_fw-la eccles._n ang._n cap._n 28._o cotton_n key_n kingd_v h._n cap._n 6._o page_n 18._o ecles._n 4._o 1●_z act._n 15._o 2._o state_n of_o the_o quest_n in_o respect_n of_o the_o patr._n of_o this_o opinion_n 2_o state_n of_o the_o quest_n positive_o apol._n ubi_fw-la supra_fw-la lond._n min._n div._n right_o presb._n cap._n 11._o pag._n 163._o levis_fw-la armaturae_fw-la militibus_fw-la velitare_fw-la *_o see_v their_o praise_n apud_fw-la montag_n apparat_fw-la sacr._n praefat_n and_o d._n wheare_n de_fw-fr meth._n leg._n hist._n *_o cent._n magd._n cent._n 2._o cap._n de_fw-fr regim._n eccl._n tit._n de_fw-fr private_a syn._n de_fw-mi tit._n de_fw-fr consoc_fw-fr eccles._n object_n crakanthorp_n ubi_fw-la supra_fw-la answ_n *_o cent_z magd._n ubi_fw-la supra_fw-la in_fw-la principio_fw-la cap._n de_fw-fr reg._n eccles._n conc._n gen._n 2._o c._n 2._o conc._n antioch_n temp._n iul._n c._n 13._o conc._n sardic._n can._n 19_o caus._n 9_o q._n 2._o c_o null_a lib._n 1_o ep._n 4._o serm._n 1._o de_fw-fr pasch_fw-mi {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o etc._n etc._n *_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o lib._n 7._o strom._n *_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o 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