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  • Quod is Ecclesiae minister alios homines cum fructu docere, aut vera Sacramenta dispensare non possit, qui ipse non sit vere renovatus, renatus et vere justus.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Quod is Ecclesiae minister alios homines cum fructu docere, aut vera Sacramenta dispensare non possit, qui ipse non sit vere renovatus, renatus et vere justus.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • At length, however, in reply to something which I had proposed, he said shortly, -- Multo minus scandalosum fuisset dispensare cum majestate vestrâ super duabus uxoribus, quam ea cedere quæ ego petebam, _it would have created less scandal to have granted your Majesty a dispensation to have two wives than to concede what I was then demanding_.

    The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856

  • Mr. Secretary and Mr. Provost, that this was not also determined, _an Papa possit dispensare_.

    The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856

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