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And no less wicked is it for a magistrate to protect, by a promiscuous toleration, all heretics, heresies and errors; yea, it is a manifest breach of trust, and plain perverting the end of his office, seeing he is appointed to be _custos et vindex utriusque tabulae_, intrusted with the concerns of God's glory, as well as the interests of men.

Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive The Reformed Presbytery

For a proletary (non-taxpayer whose fortune is rated at less than a freeholder's) any one who shall be willing shall be surety (_vindex_).

The Twelve Tables Anonymous

The civil powers herein acting directly contrary to the nature and perverting the very ends of the magistrate's office, which is to be _custos et vindex utriusque tabulae_; the minister of God, a revenger, to execute wrath on him that doeth evil.

Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive The Reformed Presbytery

Other works are "Lettere sull 'elettricismo" (1758); "Experimenta atque observationes quibus electricitas vindex late constituitur" (1769); and "Dell 'elettricita terrestre atmosferica a cielo sereno" (1775).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement] 1840-1916 1913

But if a man have the fortitude and resolution to enfranchise himself at once, that is the best: Optimus ille animi vindex lædentia pectus

XXXVIII. Of Nature in Men 1909

What his particular 'ism' will be called it is impossible to say; but taking into consideration the man's extraordinary conception of Christianity as a punishing religion, the motto of his new faith should certainly be '_Cernit omnia Deus vindex! _'

The Bishop's Secret Fergus Hume 1895

* Cannarum vindex, et tanti sanguinis ultor, Annulus.

Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863

Cannarum vindex, et tanti sanguinis ultor, Annulus. —

Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863

English -- "_Tabella vindex tacitae libertatis_" -- "the tablet which secures the liberty of silence".

Cicero Ancient Classics for English Readers Rev. W. Lucas Collins 1852

Protestantism, the great prerogative of reason, the key-note of conscience, the sole vindex of a man's responsibility: evil and false is the so-called reverential wisdom which lays down in place of the truth that each man's conscience is a law unto himself, the tyranny of other men's authority.

The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849