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71) Edwards Gangraena (1646) likewise complained that Baptist writers gave "swelling Titles to their books they set forth, as, Innocency and Truth Triumphing together, as, Truth gloriously appearing, [and] The storming of Antichrist.
Defining the Puritans? the baptism debate in Cromwellian Ireland, 1654-56
99) Then, in the early months of 1646 and leading into the summer, the Leveller leaders published a plethora of pamphlets, beginning with Lilburne's Innocency and Truth Justified (January).
"Whatsoever yee would that men should doe unto you, even so doe yee to them": an analysis of the effect of religious consciousness on the origins of the leveller movement
My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
Habakkuk in the Lions' den
But no sooner did he transgress, than instead of enjoying the boldness of innocency, and the liberties of paradise, he sneaks away to hide himself.
"A clear and steady channel": Isaac Backus and the limits of liberty
He even seems to have tried to treat a case of Tourette's Syndrome in a patient who would "with perfect innocency of mind, in lieu of such combinations of elements as that, or good, or when, and a thousand others equally indispensable to the construction of the simplest sentences, pronounce sounds that had the semblance of such shocking words, as the pen must not write, nor the ear of modesty listen to" (Results of Experience 39).
Romantic Self-Fashioning: John Thelwall and the Science of Elocution
14; John Goodwin, Truth and innocency triumphing together (London, 1648), pp.
Rawls and a shrinking liberty of conscience
his life; but, by the goodness of God, his own innocency and courage,
Who wrote "A Funerall Elegie"?
Let none then hereafter secure themselves in personal innocency or rest in actual purity from the sins of the times," Fairclough proclaimed.
Modern collective guilt theory as rooted in the English Revolution
Nothing but Innocency and Knowledge can make the Mind truly easy.
The manuscript of "Culture and its Enemies"

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