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A44140 Impar conatui, or, Mr. J.B. the author of an answer to the animadversions on the Dean of St. Paul's vindication of the Trinity rebuk'd and prov'd to be wholly unfit for the great work he hath undertaken : with some account of the late scandalous animadversions on Mr. Hill's book intituled A vindication of the primitive fathers ... : in a letter to the Reverend Mr. R.E. / by Thomas Holdsworth. Holdsworth, Thomas. 1695 (1695) Wing H2407; ESTC R27413 59,646 88

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scilicet_fw-la argumentantur_fw-la ex_fw-la scripturarum_fw-la locis_fw-la qui_fw-la multiplicem_fw-la possunt_fw-la habere_fw-la sensum_fw-la ipsi_fw-la vero_fw-la haeretici_fw-la illum_fw-la arripiunt_fw-la qui_fw-la neque_fw-la cum_fw-la aliis_fw-la scripture_n neque_fw-la cum_fw-la analogia_fw-la fidei_fw-la est_fw-la consentaneus_fw-la ut_fw-la verbi_fw-la gratiâ_fw-la quum_fw-la probant_fw-la solum_fw-la patrem_fw-la ideo_fw-la esse_fw-la illu_z unum_n deum_n etc._n etc._n quia_fw-la dixit_fw-la christus_fw-la haec_fw-la est_fw-la vita_fw-la aeterna_fw-la ut_fw-la cognoscant_fw-la te_fw-la solum_fw-la verum_fw-la deum_fw-la &_o quem_fw-la misisti_fw-la jesum_fw-la christum_fw-la jo._n 17.3_o now_o that_o what_o the_o heretic_n and_o mr._n j._n b._n contend_v for_o do_v not_o follow_v from_o hence_o he_o thus_o go_v on_o clear_o to_o evince_v 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d est_fw-la in_o his_o verbis_fw-la potest_fw-la enim_fw-la illud_fw-la 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d etc._n 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