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A43681 The spirit of popery speaking out of the mouths of phanatical-Protestants, or, The last speeches of Mr. John Kid and Mr. John King, two Presbyterian ministers, who were executed for high-treason and rebellion at Edinburgh, August the 14th, 1679 with animadversions, and the history of the Archbishop of St. Andrews his murder, extracted out of the registers of the Privy-Council, &c. / by an orthodox Protestant. Hickes, George, 1642-1715.; Kid, John, d. 1679.; King, John, d. 1679. 1680 (1680) Wing H1874; ESTC R6348 165,592 93

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pro_fw-la episcopatus_fw-la vigore_fw-la &_o cathedrae_fw-la autoritate_fw-la haberes_fw-la potestatem_fw-la quâ_fw-la possess_v de_fw-fr illo_fw-la statim_fw-la vindicari_fw-la meminisse_fw-la autem_fw-la diaconi_fw-la debent_fw-la quoniam_fw-la apostolos_fw-la id_fw-la est_fw-la episcopos_fw-la &_o propositos_fw-la dominus_fw-la elegit_fw-la diaconos_fw-la autem_fw-la post_fw-la ascensum_fw-la domini_fw-la in_o coelos_fw-la apostoli_fw-la sibi_fw-la constituerunt_fw-la episcopatus_fw-la svi_fw-la &_o ecclesiae_fw-la ministros_fw-la and_o epist._n 42._o to_o cornelius_n bishop_n of_o rome_n hoc_fw-la enim_fw-la vel_fw-la maximè_fw-la frater_fw-la &_o laboramus_fw-la &_o laborare_fw-la debemus_fw-la ut_fw-la unitatem_fw-la à_fw-la domino_fw-la &_o per_fw-la apostolos_fw-la nobis_fw-la successoribus_fw-la traditam_fw-la quantum_fw-la possumus_fw-la obtinere_fw-la curemus_fw-la epist._n 69._o christi_fw-la qui_fw-la dicit_fw-la ad_fw-la apostolos_fw-la ac_fw-la per_fw-la hoc_fw-la 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