Moses and the Magistrate: a Study in the rise of Protestant Legalism

‘It is now disputed at every table’, declared Whitgift in 1574, ‘whether the magistrate be of necessity bound to the judicials of Moses’. Edwin Sandys told Bullinger of Zürich in the previous year that it was being maintained, to the great trouble of the Church, that ‘The judicial laws of Moses are...

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Main Author: Avis, P. D. L. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1975
In: The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 1975, Volume: 26, Issue: 2, Pages: 149-172
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