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Contra facientes, pro impijs et profanis habeas: vt omnia ad pietatis et honestatis pr鎠criptum geras, in vita priuata et communi, vt huic status et ordines Ecclesiastici et Politici, in vniversum obtemperent: In vtroque vit� genere ab illi amussi seu norma 鎞ui et boni dependeas, et c鎡eros qui pertinacia ac impietate ab ea deflectunt, auersens, quos 鎞uum est poenis condignis affici, id quod magistratur cur� futurum non diffidimus.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Contra facientes, pro impijs et profanis habeas: vt omnia ad pietatis et honestatis præscriptum geras, in vita priuata et communi, vt huic status et ordines Ecclesiastici et Politici, in vniversum obtemperent: In vtroque vitæ genere ab illi amussi seu norma æqui et boni dependeas, et cæteros qui pertinacia ac impietate ab ea deflectunt, auersens, quos æquum est poenis condignis affici, id quod magistratur curæ futurum non diffidimus.
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Lat., tells us that pertinacia is a continuance or going on in that wherein one ought not to continue or proceed; perseverantia is that whereby any one continues in that wherein he ought so to do.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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Garnier seems to have completely missed the force of this exclamation in the explanation in a note, "Judex hoc dicere volebat, quem fructum referet ex sua pertinacia, si semel mortuus fuerit; neque enim in hanc vitam rursus redibit, ejus ut gaudiis perfruatur, neque tamen ulla alia vita est."
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Quod si nihil remiserint, ipsi viderint, quomodo Deo rationem reddituri sint, quod pertinacia sua causam schismati praebent [Spaltung und Schisma, das sie doch billig sollen verhueten helfen].
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In Bruce's character there was not only the _error in intellectu_, but also the _pertinacia in voluntate_.
Julian Home 1867
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Sive perfidia, sive _pertinacia_ id _egerit_, certe philosophiae schola interitum _viri_ descripsisses.
Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852
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Contra facientes, pro impijs et profanis habeas: vt omnia ad pietatis et honestatis præscriptum geras, in vita priuata et communi, vt huic status et ordines Ecclesiastici et Politici, in vniversum obtemperent: In vtroque vitæ genere ab illi amussi seu norma æqui et boni dependeas, et cæteros qui pertinacia ac impietate ab ea deflectunt, auersens, quos æquum est poenis condignis affici, id quod magistratur curæ futurum non diffidimus.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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2, 4: "Quia speciosius aliquanto injuriae beneficiis vincuntur quam mutui odii pertinacia pensantur."
The Sympathy of Religions Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867
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