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William Gurnall

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God is very precise in this point; he will say to such as invent ways to worship him of their own, coin means to mortify corruption, obtain comfort in their own mint: 'Who hath required this at your hands?' This is truly to be 'righteous over-much,'as Solomon speaks, when we will pretend to correct God's law, and add supplements of our own to his rule.

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