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“For where this Self-love rules, Divines will study more to tune the Scriptures to their opinion, than their opinions to Scripture, and by head and shoulders drag the Fundamental Articles of the Christian Faith, to the supporting of their doctrines not Fundamental.”

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Book:Ad fraternam communionem inter evangelicas ecclesias restaurandam adhortatio in eo fundata, quòd non dissentiant in ullo fundamentali catholicae fidei ... Sarisburiensem. (1640)
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Ad fraternam communionem inter evangelicas ecclesias restaurandam adhortatio in eo fundata, quòd non dissentiant in ullo fundamentali catholicae fidei ... Sarisburiensem. (1640)

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