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• They were “severe in that they profess, and loth to remit anything of that they have received.”  As the difference between the Genevan and Anglican models contributed so greatly to the Civil War under Charles I., the results may be regretted; Anglicans, by 1643, were looked on as “Baal worshippers” by the precise Scots. —  John Knox and the Reformation
• When we profess, as our fundamental principle, that liberty is the inalienable right of every man, we do not include madmen or idiots; liberty in their hands would become a scourge. —  The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement
• I profess, all other subjects, howsoever they might be more pleasing to some hearers, are unpleasant and unsavoury to me. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
• And truly to own and profess, and prosecute that interest of soul preservation, of eternal rest to our souls, is neither ignoble, nor unbeseeming a Christian; neither is it any way inconsistent with the pursuance of that more public and catholic interest of God’s glory, in respect of which all interests, even the most general and public, are particular and private. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
• It becomes necessary for his interests, and for our own, and for that of all England, and moreover for that of the only true and pure faith, which we profess--the faith of Rome--that the Usurper should be removed. —  John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea

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