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A10909 An answere vnto a wicked & infamous libel made by Christopher Vitel, one of the chiefe English elders of the pretended Family of Loue maintaining their doctrine, & carpingly answeringe to certaine pointes of a boke called the displaing of the Fam. Aunswered by I. Rogers. Rogers, John, fl. 1560-1580.; Vitell, Christopher, fl. 1555-1579. 1579 (1579) STC 21180; ESTC S116065 74,007 215

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psal._n 19_o joh._n 9.3_o jo●_a 15._o c●a_fw-la 14._o ●_o 15_o &_o 1●_o ●sa_fw-la 25.11_o reu●●_n ●_z this_o wor●_n 〈◊〉_d word_n 〈◊〉_d of_o a_o 〈◊〉_d call_v man_n ▪_o fall_v aw●y_o a_fw-mi 〈…〉_o 1._o 2._o ●la_fw-la 9_o ●●_o sexion_n 2._o sexion_n 6._o se●ion_n ●_o man_n his_o innocency_n sexion_n 10._o sexion_n 11._o sexion_n 14._o sexion_n 15._o sexion_n 1●_o th●_z opinion_n th●t_a th●_z 〈◊〉_d hau●_n of_o chri●t_n sexi●n_n 17._o m●th_n 15._o luk●_n ●3_o sexion_n 10._o sexion_n 2d_o s●x●o●_n 24._o which_o man_n i●_z hn._n publish_a peace_n chap._n 1._o devi_fw-fr 16._o documentall_a sentence●_n hn._n ch●p_n ●_o de●●_n 4._o ●id●litas_fw-la chap._n 1._o ●●ui_fw-la ●_o document●ll_o s●ntence●_n chap._n 3_n divi_z 7._o ●_o libertinisme_n deut._n 22._o document_n chap._n 2._o de●i_fw-la 1._o deut._n 26._o ma●_n h●s_v st●te_v regenerate_v document●ll_o sentence_n ▪_o chap._n 2_o d●u●_n ●_o prophecy_n ▪_o ch●p_n 6._o divi_z 9_o prophesy_n ▪_o chap_n 7._o divi._n 19_o ●idelitas_fw-la chap._n 3._o divi_z 15._o vitelli_n ▪_o libel_n sexion_n and_o be_v their_o gen●●●l_a doctrine_n a_o principle_n in_o th●●amilye_n collect_v by_o the_o doctrine_n fidelitas_fw-la chap._n 5._o devi_fw-fr 15._o