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Jeremy Taylor's Merely Spiritual Power

An Examination of Canon Law in Ductor Dubitantium 1660

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Canon Reginald Askew
Canon Reginald Askew
Affiliation:
Dean of King's College, London
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Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 14 , January 1994 , pp. 156 - 165
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 1994

References

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4. ibid, 25 March 1657.

5. ibid, 23 March 1658.

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7. 1594. Note, however, that Bk VIII did not appear until 1648.

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9. ibid, vol X, p 264, Rule 1. For these twenty rules, see the end of this paper.

10. ibid, vol X, p 203.

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13. ibid, vol X, pp 266 ff.

14. ibid, vol X, p 272.

15. ibid, vol X, p 274.

16. ibid, vol X, p 319.

17. ibid, vol X, p 338.

18. ibid, vol X, p 344.

19. ‘A rule of fasting is laid upon everyone; but it is free and unrestrained. The motive is not straightlaced nervousness, but simply the willingness to do it.’

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27. Homer, Odyssey, Bk XIX, 109 ffGoogle Scholar: ‘as the glory of some god-fearing king of a populous powerful race, by virtue of whose equity and good governance the masses prosper and the dark earth abounds with wheat or barley and the trees bow down with fruit’ (trans T. E. Lawrence).

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