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Is it possible for any man to contrive a way to make the Decree of the Council of Trent, commanding the public Offices of the Church to be in Latin, friends with the fourteenth chapter of the Corinthians?

— Jeremy Taylor Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647)

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