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To whom ihii Ntfimr (whofe undaunted breft Was flam'd with zeal) an anfwer thus exprcft:
Brachy-martyrologia, Or, A Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions which Have Befallen the ... 1657
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:: Chrift afcer ftrawe asit werean oxe. - j - And the infant from the breft shal 8 his death, bcdclighted vpon theholeof theafpe?
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r Jat may the reafon be, that, when Defire Hath kindled in the breft, a Loving-fire,
A collection of emblemes, ancient and moderne : quickened vvith metricall illustrations, both morall and divine : and disposed into lotteries ... Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver 1635
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Lct vs not thinke theie ro be tokens of fained modeftie, that he dare not loke vp to heauen, nor to come nercr, that with knocking his breft he confcfTeth himfelfe a (inner; but let vs know that they bee teftimonies of inward aftedion.
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