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He exhorteth them to stand to their old faith, shevving them by examples, that it is damnable not to continue and be constant: 8 inueighing against the lecherie, blasphemie, apostasie, banketing of the heretikes,
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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What that man is of the law we know nott: we hear nane of his flatterie: his mensworne aith of apostasie is ignorant to us.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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At least cowardice in not daring to avouch the same, or their being ashamed to own it, because many famous and faithful acts of assemblies, especially about the year 1648, would have made them lyable to censure, even to the length of silencing and deposition; for their defection and unfaithfulness during the late times, of the lands apostasie.
The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876
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