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A83437 The casting down of the last and strongest hold of Satan. Or, A treatise against toleration and pretended liberty of conscience: wherein by Scripture, sound reason, fathers, schoolmen, casuists, Protestant divines of all nations, confessions of faith of the Reformed Churches, ecclesiastical histories, and constant practice of the most pious and wisest emperours, princes, states, the best writers of politicks, the experience of all ages; yea, by divers principles, testimonies and proceedings of sectaries themselves, as Donatists, Anabaptists, Brownists, Independents, the unlawfulnesse and mischeif [sic] in Christian commonwealths and kingdoms both of a vniversal toleration of all religions and consciences, and of a limited and bounded of some sects only, are clearly proved and demonstrated, with all the materiall grounds and reasons brought for such tolerations fully answered. / By Thomas Edvvards, Minister of the Gospel. The first part.; Casting down of the last and strongest hold of Satan. Part 1 Edwards, Thomas, 1599-1647. 1647 (1647) Wing E225; Thomason E394_6; ESTC R201621 211,214 231

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aegritudo_fw-la submoveri_fw-la cum_fw-la sanam_fw-la esset_fw-la ac_fw-la robusta_fw-la ecclesia_fw-la in_o primo_fw-la illo_fw-la aetatis_fw-la store_n &_o apostolorun_v choro_fw-la superstite_fw-la etiam_fw-la violentis_fw-la utiremediis_fw-la ob_fw-la vigorem_fw-la suum_fw-la par_fw-fr erat_fw-la nunc_fw-la morbis_fw-la ac_fw-la senio_fw-la confecta_fw-la &_o debilis_fw-la superanti_fw-la jam_fw-la aegritudini_fw-la pene_fw-la succumbit_fw-la ●ec_fw-la magis_fw-la unquam_fw-la periclitatur_fw-la quam_fw-la cum_fw-la in_o crudeles_fw-la medicos_fw-la incidit_fw-la vide_fw-la ibi_fw-la plura_fw-la plura_fw-la gerard._n joh._n vossii_n thesis_n theolog._n de_n necessi_fw-it baptismi_fw-la thes_n 4._o contra_fw-la f●ust●_n socinun_n praeterea_fw-la etsi_fw-la concederetur_fw-la christum_fw-la de_fw-la baptismo_fw-la de_fw-fr disse_fw-la praeceptum_fw-la censet_fw-la illud_fw-la tantùm_fw-la pertinuisse_fw-la ad_fw-la initia_fw-la quibus_fw-la exrudi_fw-la populo_fw-la &_o ceremoniis_fw-la assueto_fw-la ecclesia_fw-la christo_fw-la colligebatur_fw-la denique_fw-la eo_fw-la etiam_fw-la concesso_fw-la ut_fw-la perpetuo_fw-la debeat_fw-la in_o ecclesia_fw-la obtinere_fw-la negat_fw-la tamen_fw-la universale_fw-la esse_fw-la nam_fw-la cum_fw-la aquae_fw-la baptismus_fw-la nihil_fw-la aliud_fw-la sit_fw-la quam_fw-la publican_n &_o solennis_fw-la quaedam_fw-la professio_fw-la nominis_fw-la christi_fw-la minime_fw-la hunc_fw-la iis_fw-la necessarium_fw-la esse_fw-la ait_fw-la qui_fw-la ex_fw-la christianis_fw-la id_fw-la est_fw-la christum_fw-la profitentibus_fw-la nascuntur_fw-la aut_fw-la qui_fw-la in_o christiana_n fide_fw-la sunt_fw-la educati_fw-la educati_fw-la but_o some_o command_n that_o in_o regard_n of_o their_o manner_n some_o degree_n and_o adjunct_n may_v not_o bind_v yet_o in_o respect_n of_o their_o substance_n and_o the_o thing_n themselves_o be_v perpetual_a of_o which_o i_o have_v speak_v before_o p._n 81_o 82_o 83_o 84._o &_o whoever_o do_v but_o consider_v the_o difference_n between_o the_o essence_n of_o a_o thing_n and_o the_o adjunct_n of_o a_o thing_n how_o the_o essence_n be_v one_o thing_n and_o the_o adjunct_n another_o and_o how_o some_o change_n may_v be_v in_o a_o adjunct_n when_o not_o in_o the_o essence_n at_o all_o will_v be_v satisfy_v satisfy_v vid._n jun._n annot._n in_o ezr._n 1._o 65._o and_o eng._n annet_fw-la annet_fw-la calvin_n refut_n e●●orum_fw-la serveti_n p._n 598._o huius_fw-la rei_fw-la illustre_fw-it nobis_fw-la exemplum_fw-la spiritus_fw-la dei_fw-la proponit_fw-la in_o nebuchad_n nam_fw-la ejus_fw-la edictum_fw-la celebrat_fw-la daniel_n quo_fw-la capitalem_fw-la paenam_fw-la denunciat_fw-la siquis_fw-la in_o deum_fw-la israel_n blasphemus_fw-la fuerit_fw-la honour_n profecto_fw-la non_fw-la vulgaris_fw-la crudeli_fw-la tyranno_fw-la habetur_fw-la quum_fw-la prophetam_fw-la suum_fw-la dominus_fw-la ad_fw-la publicandas_fw-la quaet_fw-la tulit_fw-la leges_fw-la qua_fw-la si_fw-la praeconem_fw-la assignat_fw-la &_o leges_fw-la ipsas_fw-la in_o acta_fw-la sua_fw-la refert_fw-la sacrisque_fw-la suis_fw-la oraculis_fw-la annumerat_fw-la quid_fw-la a_o spiritus_fw-la sa●cti_fw-la &_o prophetae_fw-la elogio_fw-la laudatur_fw-la nebuchadnezer_n qui_fw-la very_fw-la dei_fw-la gloriam_fw-la pro_fw-la imperio_fw-la tutandam_fw-la suscepit_fw-la ut_fw-la ad_fw-la impiam_fw-la ejus_fw-la prophanationem_fw-la conniu●ant_fw-la sancti_fw-la magistratus_fw-la a_o non_fw-la potius_fw-la his_fw-la dominus_fw-la sub_fw-la profani_fw-la regis_fw-la persona_fw-la quid_fw-la agere_fw-la ipsos_fw-la deceat_fw-la praescribit_fw-la et_fw-la c●rte_fw-la quid_fw-la magis_fw-la praeposterum_fw-la quam_fw-la in_o ecclesiae_fw-la sinu_fw-la impune_fw-la foveri_fw-la fcelestas_fw-la in_o deum_fw-la c●nt●elias_fw-la quae_fw-la in_o babylone_a paena_fw-la capitali_fw-la sanitae_fw-la fuerunt_fw-la ☞_o ☞_o bull_v adversus_fw-la anabaptistas_n l._n 4._o c._n 5._o c._n 6._o osiandri_fw-la enchiridion_n c._n 2._o qust_n 41._o de_fw-fr magistratu_fw-la politico_n politico_n the_o error_n and_o controversy_n in_o matter_n of_o the_o second_o table_n upon_o the_o 5_o 6_o 7_o 8_o and_o 9_o commandment_n be_v the_o most_o exact_o sum_v up_o by_o danaeus_n in_o his_o book_n de_fw-fr haeresibus_fw-la of_o any_o author_n in_o that_o kind_n that_o ever_o i_o meet_v with_o index●_n tertius_fw-la de_fw-fr decalog_n legis_fw-la de_fw-fr quinto_fw-la praecepto_fw-la magistratum_fw-la damnant_fw-la &_o tollunt_fw-la manichai_n anabaptistae_n magistratus_fw-la ●utoritatem_fw-la in_o negotiis_fw-la religionis_fw-la negant_fw-la d●n●tistae_fw-la judicia_fw-la capitalia_fw-la à_fw-la christian●_n homine_fw-la exer●●i_fw-la posse_fw-la negant_fw-la tertullianiss●_n de_fw-fr sexto_fw-la precepto_fw-la seipsos_fw-la occiacre_n putant_fw-la licere_fw-la hominibus_fw-la patriciani_n circumcelliones_fw-la de_fw-fr septimo_fw-la praecepto_fw-la vxores_fw-la commune_v &_o promiscuas_fw-la ess_n debere_fw-la d●cent_fw-la simoniani_n nicolaitae_n carpocratiani_fw-la incestus_fw-la admittunt_fw-la &_o probant_fw-la catap●●yges_n de_fw-fr octavo_fw-la praecepto_fw-la propria_fw-la quaedam_fw-la à_fw-la christianis_fw-la poss●deri_fw-la posse_fw-la negant_fw-la apostolici_fw-la jesuitae_n anabaptistae_n de_fw-fr nono_fw-la praecepto_fw-la mentiri_fw-la homini_fw-la christiano_n licere_fw-la putant_fw-la messaliani_n priscillianistae_n ☜_o ☜_o whites_n way_n to_o the_o church_n pag._n 81._o 83_o 84_o 85._o neither_o can_v the_o jesuit_n assign_v any_o company_n or_o state_n of_o man_n whereby_o the_o church_n may_v be_v suppose_v to_o manifest_v her_o teach_n but_o the_o same_o may_v be_v subject_a to_o error_n and_o in_o experience_n have_v err_v as_o we_o see_v in_o counsel_n doctor_n and_o all_o other_o mean_n which_o she_o have_v use_v in_o teach_v we_o except_o that_o of_o the_o scripture_n only_o willet_n second_o general_n controversy_n concern_v the_o church_n second_o 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