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A87510 A mixture of scholasticall divinity, with practicall, in severall tractates: vvherein some of the most difficult knots in divinity are untied, many darke places of Scripture cleared, sundry heresies, and errours, refuted, / by Henry Ieanes, minister of God's Word at Chedzoy in Sommerset-shire.; Mixture of scholasticall divinity, with practicall. Part 1 Jeanes, Henry, 1611-1662. 1656 (1656) Wing J507; Thomason E872_3; Thomason E873_1; ESTC R202616 347,399 402

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aliquam_fw-la dignitatem_fw-la physicam_fw-la vel_fw-la moralem_fw-la ratione_fw-la cvius_fw-la possit_fw-la dici_fw-la infin_fw-fr ta_fw-fr tamen_fw-la si_fw-la haec_fw-la acceptatio_fw-la vel_fw-la ordinatio_fw-la non_fw-la consideretur_fw-la ut_fw-la merè_fw-la extrinseca_v sed_fw-la quatenus_fw-la
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