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If this form of wrong had been singled out from all the others, and had alone been treated preceptively, the whole system would have been vitiated.

From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by Elliott, E. N.

And as these are preceptively propounded, so they were as practically followed by them that were eminently godly in the primitive church.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John