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Doth any man doubt , that if there were taken out of Mens Mindes , Vaine
Opinions , Flattering Hopes , False valuations , Imaginations as one would , and
the like ; but it would leave the Mindes , of a Number of Men , poore shrunken
Things ...
Doth any man doubt , that if there were taken out of Mens Mindes , Vaine
Opinions , Flattering Hopes , False valuations , Imaginations as one would , and
the like ; but it would leave the Mindes , of a Number of Men , poore shrunken
Things ...
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And certainly , it is little better , when Atheists , and prophane Persons , do heare
of so many Discordant , and Contrary Opinions in Religion ; It doth avert them
from the Church , and maketh them , To sit downe in the chaire of the Scorners .
And certainly , it is little better , when Atheists , and prophane Persons , do heare
of so many Discordant , and Contrary Opinions in Religion ; It doth avert them
from the Church , and maketh them , To sit downe in the chaire of the Scorners .
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... from Points not meerely of Faith , but of Opinion , Order , or good Intention .
This is a Thing , may seeme to many , a Matter triviall , and done already : But if it
were done lesse partially , it would be embraced more generally . Of this I may
give ...
... from Points not meerely of Faith , but of Opinion , Order , or good Intention .
This is a Thing , may seeme to many , a Matter triviall , and done already : But if it
were done lesse partially , it would be embraced more generally . Of this I may
give ...
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... ever , those Facts and Opinions , tending to the Support of the same ; As hath
beene already in good part done . Surely in Counsels , Concerning Religion ,
that Counsel of the Apostle would be prefixed ; Ira hominis non implet Iusticiam
Dei .
... ever , those Facts and Opinions , tending to the Support of the same ; As hath
beene already in good part done . Surely in Counsels , Concerning Religion ,
that Counsel of the Apostle would be prefixed ; Ira hominis non implet Iusticiam
Dei .
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... And at such times , when they thought the Case indeed , required
Dissimulation , if then they used it , it came to passe , that the former Opinion ,
spred abroad of their good Faith , and Clearnesse of dealing , made them almost
Invisible .
... And at such times , when they thought the Case indeed , required
Dissimulation , if then they used it , it came to passe , that the former Opinion ,
spred abroad of their good Faith , and Clearnesse of dealing , made them almost
Invisible .
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