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Christum, quatenus renati sunt, absque coactione, libero et spontaneo spiritu, talem obedientiam praestant, qualem alias nullae quantumvis severissimae Legis comminationes extorquere possent.
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Talem vero peccatorum agnitionem solus Moises nunquam ex ipsis extorquere potuisset. aforetime the Pharisees, or grow desperate in their sins, as did the traitor Judas.
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Qui mali fenfu aut metu extorquere aflen - fum vult, eo ipfo oftendit; fe argumentis diffidere.
De veritate religionis christianæ Hugo Grotius, Jean Le Clerc, 1657-1736 1772
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€arum alligaverint majores noftri, per qua "que fiibjecerint viris; quibus omnibus con" ftriSas vix tamen continere poteftis, Quid? fi carpere fingula, & extorquere, & exaquari. ad extremum viris patiemini, tolerabiles vo -. bis eas fore creditis?
Titi Livii Patavini Historiarum ab urbe condita libri qui supersunt xxxv Lallemand, Jean Nicolas, ed 1775
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