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An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church

Note 1310 — XXVII. CALVINISM.

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Ibid. p. 278. The Book was signed at Edinburgh, Jan. 27, 1561, but only after the adoption of a proviso—“Provided that the Bishops, Abbots, Priors and other Prelates and Beneficed men, which else have adjoyned themselves to us, brooke the revenues of their Benefices during their lifetimes.”—Worldly wisdom certainly was not lost sight of in the ardor of a new and purer religion.

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