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  • So he vehe - mently opposed the Pelagians, who denied that man's nature is intrinsically alienated by sin, and that anyone may, like the prodigal son, decide on his own volition to arise and return to his Father.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ERNEST TUVESON 1968

  • Insist vehe - mently on the great fact which covers the whole ground, that God, Spirit, is all, and that there is none beside

    Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures Mary Baker Eddy 1865

  • Bale informs us, that he vehe - mently opposed archbishop Becket in the contests be had with king Henry II. and that he was very expert in con* troversial writing.

    The general biographical dictionary. Revised by A. Chalmers 1812

  • N4 j84 the decline and fall CHAP, and avarice of his grandfon; the ruin of the XLYi* proudeft monument of Chriftianity was vehe - mently urged by the intolerant fpirit of the Magi; and he could enlift, for this holy warfare, an army of fix and twenty thoufand Jews, whofc furious bigotry might compenfate, in fome de - gree, for the want of valour and difcipline.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1788

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