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  • The term peccatum here seems to mean 'mistake' rather than 'sin.'

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • In like manner the Latins by peccatum, which is sin, signify all manner of deviation from the law; but by crimen (which word they derive from cerno, which signifies to perceive) they mean only such sins as may be made appear before a judge, and therefore are not mere intentions.

    Leviathan 2007

  • After their conversion completed, and this either upon the committing of a conscience-wasting sin, such as Tertullian calls peccatum devoratorium salutis, or upon the undergoing of some heavy affliction of a bigger standard and proportion, blacker hue and complexion, than what befalls ordinary men, as in the case of Job.

    Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863

  • In like manner the Latins by peccatum, which is sin, signify all manner of deviation from the law; but by crimen (which word they derive from cerno, which signifies to perceive) they mean only such sins as may be made appear before a judge, and therefore are not mere intentions.

    Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651

  • To 'cease from sin' I say, understanding by sin, not from sin altogether - that is a higher perfection than this life will bear, but as the Apostle expoundeth, Ne regnet peccatum, that is from the 'dominion of sin' to cease.

    Latest Articles 2009

  • To 'cease from sin' I say, understanding by sin, not from sin altogether - that is a higher perfection than this life will bear, but as the Apostle expoundeth, Ne regnet peccatum, that is from the 'dominion of sin' to cease.

    Latest Articles 2009

  • Vel malus vel impotens, qui peccatum permittit, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Non loquor de omni desperatione, sed tantum de ea qua desperare solent homines de Deo; opponitur spei, et est peccatum gravissimum,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Talem se exhibuit, ut nec in Christum, nec Mahometan crederet, unde effectum ut promissa nisi quatenus in suum commodum cederent minime servaret, nec ullo scelere peccatum statueret, ut suis desideriis satisfaceret.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quod autem crebrius bella concutiant, quod sterilitas et fames solicitudinem cumulent, quod saevientibus morbis valitudo frangitur, quod humanum genus luis populatione vastatur; ob peccatum omnia.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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