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  • Ille charissimos, hic omnes homines citra discrimen timet.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Haud scio an majus discrimen ab his qui blandiuntur, an ab his qui territant; ingens utrinque periculum: alii ad securitatem ducunt, alii afflictionum magnitudine mentem absorbent, et in desperationem trahunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The Benedictine text adopts the common reading gennetois, with the note, "Sed discrimen illud parvi momenti."

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • Aliud discrimen hoc in canone uxores inter et maritos ponitur, quod uxor injuste dimissa, si ab alia ducatur, adulterii notam non effugiat; dimissus autem injuste maritus nec adulter sit, si aliam ducat, nec quae ab eo ducitur, adultera.

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • Quaedam exemplaria caeremoniales rubricas habent, quae in aliis non reperiuntur; at alicujus momenti discrimen in illis partibus quae canonem sacrae

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • For, since the promise of grace is universal, and since we must obey this promise, some difference between the elect and the rejected must be inferred from our will (_sequitur, aliquod discrimen inter electos et reiectos a voluntate nostra sumendum esse_), _viz. _, that those who resist the promise are rejected, while those who embrace the promise are received ....

    Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894

  • Credimus, docemus et confitemur, quod summo studio hoc discrimen sit conservandum propterea quod illud dogma, nullum videlicet inter naturam hominis corrupti et inter peccatum originis esse discrimen, cum praecipuis Fidei nostrae articulis (de creatione, de redemtione, de sanctificatione et resurrectione carnis nostrae) pugnet, neque salvis hisce articulis stare possit.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Jam quod ad discrimen operum Legis et fructuum Spiritus attinet, credimus, docemus et confitemur, quod opera illa, quae secundum praescriptum Legis fiunt, eatenus opera Legis sint et appellentur, quatenus ea solummodo urgendo, et minis paenarum atque irae divinae, ab homine extorquentur.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Credimus, docemus et confitemur, discrimen Legis et Evangelii, ut clarissimum quoddam lumen: [10304] 1

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • * Ab hoc eodem decreto pendet discrimen inter electos et reprobos; quia alias sibi adoptavit in salutem, alios aeterno exitio destinavit.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

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