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They had not only been guilty of divers aSs of mutiny and difobedience of tnn k jh but had even proceeded to other ads of the moft hein - ous and treafonable nature.
The Parliamentary Register: Or an Impartial Report of the Debates that Have Occured in the Two ... 1797
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The bifhop himfelf he refolved to puniffi for difobedience to his commands; and the expe - dient, which he employed for that purpofe, was of a nature at once the moil illegal and molf alarming.
The history of England : from the invasion iof Julius Cæsar to the revolution in 1688 ... 1796
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Edward, touched in fo fenfible a point, faw the neceflity of exerting the royal authority; and he threatened God - win, if he perfifted in his difobedience, to make him feel the utmoft effects of his refentment.
The history of England : from the invasion iof Julius Cæsar to the revolution in 1688 ... 1796
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Minos, pleafed with the animal, refolved to preferve it, and the God, to punifh his difobedience, eaufed Pafiphae to be enamoured of this fine bull.
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The wonder indeed is, that people ihonld ever hope that this will excufe their difobedience.
Sermons: by the Right Reverend Father in God Thomas Wilson, ... 1795
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And it is mere folly to expeft any other iflue of our obedience or difobedience.
Sermons: by the Right Reverend Father in God Thomas Wilson, ... 1795
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Ruin, defola - tion, and captivity, were the chaftifements by which they were woefully taught, that. difobedience to the commands of God is no trivial or venial matter, but muft inevitably bring after it a feries of mifery, from which nothing but bitter repentance can rcftore the offender.
Twelve Discourses on Different Subjects: By George Isaac Huntingford, ... George Isaac Huntingford 1795
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'' The threatenings of the divine law had the fame good tendency in their own nature with refpedt to them, to deter them from difobedience, and urge their purfuit of happinefs, as with refpecl to others; and thefe were fome of the meano Ood appointed for their falvation.
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He muil therefore difplay his own rectoral virtues: he muft maintain the honour of his government, he muft fhew his difplea - fure againit difobedience, and deter his fubjefts from it; I fay,
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And when only an external aftion, is m, en - tioned, and commanded, the command has refpeft to the heart, and requires the aftion to be done in obedience to liim; and not in impenitence and difobedience.
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