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A18914 A chronological discourse touching, 1 The Church. 2 Christ. 3 Anti-Christ. 4 Gog & Magog. &c. The substaunce whereof, was collected about some 10. or 11. yeares since (as may be gathered by an epistle prefixed before a tractate, called, The visible Christian) but now digested into better order; and first published, by the author himselfe, H. Cl. Clapham, Henoch. 1609 (1609) STC 5336; ESTC S108005 72,787 116

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fide_fw-la iustificatum_fw-la esse_fw-la et_fw-la gloriatur_fw-la in_o eo_fw-la paulus_n ut_fw-la svam_fw-la ipsius_fw-la iustitiam_fw-la contemnat_fw-la victor_n antiochenus_fw-la in_o marc._n 5._o victor_n haec_fw-la disertè_fw-la indicant_fw-la vestimenta_fw-la contacta_fw-la eam_fw-la non_fw-la sanasse_n sed_fw-la fidem_fw-la igitur_fw-la neque_fw-la locus_fw-la neque_fw-la verba_fw-la neque_fw-la aliud_fw-la quippiam_fw-la eiusmodi_fw-la externum_fw-la hominem_fw-la saluat_fw-la sed_fw-la ununquemque_fw-la sua_fw-la fides_fw-la seruat_fw-la rabanus_n l._n 7._o rabanus_n in_o ecclumm_n c._n 2._o per_fw-la solam_fw-la christigratiam_fw-la ab_fw-la omnis_fw-la candalo_fw-la liberantur_fw-la electi_fw-la remigius_n in_o psa._n 29._o remigius_n vita_fw-la aeterna_fw-la non_fw-la est_fw-la ex_fw-la merito_fw-la quia_fw-la cadere_fw-la per_fw-la nos_fw-la potuimus_fw-la sed_fw-la per_fw-la nos_fw-la surgere_fw-la non_fw-la potuimus_fw-la sed_fw-la ex_fw-la voluntate_fw-la eius_fw-la 1._o 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1._o hoc_fw-la est_fw-la testimonium_fw-la quod_fw-la perhibet_fw-la sp._n ss_z dicens_fw-la dimissa_fw-la sunt_fw-la tibi_fw-la peccata_fw-la tua_fw-la sic_fw-la n._n arbitratur_fw-la apostolus_fw-la gratis_o iustificari_fw-la hominem_fw-la per_fw-la fidem_fw-la rupertus_n in_o l._n 7._o rupert_n in_o job._n c._n 7._o in_o jesu_n christo_n nec_fw-la circumcisio_fw-la nec_fw-la preputium_fw-la nec_fw-la gentilis_fw-la nec_fw-la judaeus_fw-la sed_fw-la ●ola_fw-la fides_n requiritu●_n io._n bapt._n foleng_n folengius_fw-la in_o psa._n 2._o quae_fw-la maioriam_fw-la potesteme_a cum_fw-la justitiae_fw-la qua_fw-la nos_fw-la ex_fw-la peccatorib_n iustos_fw-la efficit_fw-la non_fw-la imputans_fw-la peccata_fw-la tum_fw-la bonitatis_fw-la demonstratio_fw-la per_fw-la quam_fw-la aeternorum_fw-la bonorum_fw-la ad_fw-la hereditatem_fw-la gratis_o invitantur_fw-la &_o quodammodo_fw-la vel_fw-la inviti_fw-la trahimur_fw-la and_o on_o pl._n 45._o video_fw-la amarem_fw-la namely_o of_o christ_n video_fw-la pacem_fw-la video_fw-la iustitiam_fw-la qua_fw-la ego_fw-la gratis_o iustificor_fw-la per_fw-la fidem_fw-la fulgent_n ad_fw-la monim_n l._n 1._o fulgent_n in_o sanctis_fw-la igitur_fw-la coronat_fw-la deus_fw-la iustitiam_fw-la quam_fw-la eye_v gratis_o ipse_fw-la tribuit_fw-la gratis_o seruabit_fw-la gratisque_fw-la perfecit_fw-la honorius_n in_o spec_fw-la honorius_n ecclus_fw-la de_fw-fr nat_n doni_fw-la fides_n debet_fw-la eme_n fundamentum_fw-la &_o postquam_fw-la ●am_fw-la posueritis_fw-la debetis_fw-la ponere_fw-la dilectionem_fw-la dei_fw-la &_o proximi_fw-la d._n io._n ferus_fw-la in_o 1._o part_n ferus_fw-la pass_v dom_n fides_n facit_fw-la discipulum_fw-la christi_fw-la charitas_fw-la autem_fw-la
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