A doore of hope, also holy and loyall activity two treatises delivered in severall sermons, in Excester / by Iohn Bond ...

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A doore of hope, also holy and loyall activity two treatises delivered in severall sermons, in Excester / by Iohn Bond ...
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Bond, John, 1612-1676.
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London :: Printed by G.M. for John Bartlet ...,
1641.
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Puritans -- Great Britain.
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3d. Paire (of Additions) are those other two Acts, which have taken away that Pair of Arbitrary Courts, namely

1. The Starr-Chamber, and 2. Next, the High-Commission. With the taking away of the former, another mighty Court is regulated, and with the fall of the latter, all Consistories, like lesser neighbouring trees, or shrubbs are broken downe under it, so farre (it seems) as doth concerne their maine Coercive power: so that this paire is a twin of twins, foure in two. Brethren, this is such a mercy, as that for some months since, we durst not for our Eares to have wished publikely for it, and I thinke, some godly persons amongst us had not the courage (at least they had not the thought) as to begge these great

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things in their very prayers: but now they are freely cast in up∣on them, unbought, unsought and unthought.

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