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  • Whereas they be like so many horseleeches, hungry, griping, corrupt, [491] covetous, avaritice mancipia, ravenous as wolves, for as Tully writes: qui praeest prodest, et qui pecudibus praeest, debet eorum utilitati inservire: or such as prefer their private before the public good.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ecclesiae generaliter Angelus praeest, qui vel collaudatur pro bene gestis populi, vel etiam pro delictis ejus culpatur.

    Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia. 1807-1886 1863

  • * Sicuti Christus ecclesiae suae praeest in ejus salutem, ita nihil esso mulieri utilius nec magis salubre, quam ut marito subsit.

    A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians 1797-1878 1860

  • [19] Sicuti Christus ecclesiae suae praeest in ejus salutem, ita nihil esso mulieri utilius nec magis salubre, quam ut marito subsit.

    A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians 1797-1878 1860

  • May we, last of all, hear what the canon law itself decreeth: (914) _Is qui praeest, si praeter voluntatem Dei, vel praeter quod in sanctis Scripturis evidenter praecipitur, vel dicit aliquid, vel imperat, tanquam falsus testis Dei, aut sacrilegus habeatur.

    The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630

  • Cum perlatum ad nos fuisset, fratres carissimi, frumentarios esse missos qui me Uticam per ducerent, consilioque carissimorum persuasum est, ut de hortis interim recederemus, justa interveniente causa, consensi; eo quod congruat episcopum in ea civitate, in qua Ecclesiae dominicae praeest, illie.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • _volentibus_, Marcus Antonius de Dominis well concludeth: _Volentibus gregi praeesso, excludit omnem jurisdictionem et potestatem imperativam ac coactivam et solam significat directivam, ubi, viz., in libertate subditi est et parere et non parere, ita ut qui praeest nihil habeat quo nolentem parere adigat ad parendum.

    The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630

  • And again (Hom.xx. in Num.): "Secundum ea quae Johannes in Apocalypsi scribit, unicuique Ecclesiae generaliter Angelus praeest, qui vel collaudatur pro bene gestis populi, vel etiam pro delictis ejus culpatur.

    Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia. 1807-1886 1863

  • From Jerome’s distinction, that a king _praeest nolentibus_ but a bishop

    The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630

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