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Church and state

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  • Jules Grévy takes the pulse of Marshal Macmahon, who lies sick in bed with a priest and another man; they are choking from the fumes of their burning bed; Léon Gambetta emerges from behind the scenes carrying a clyster. Coloured wood engraving, 1879.
  • King Louis XIV receives an enema while sitting on a globe of the earth, thus besmearing it with ordure; around him, chaos reigns; symbolising the events following the Protestant rebellions of 1674 including the flight of the royal family from England in 1689. Engraving by R. de Hooghe, c. 1689.
  • King Louis XIV receives an enema while sitting on a globe of the earth, thus besmearing it with ordure; around him, chaos reigns; symbolising the events following the Protestant rebellions of 1674 including the flight of the royal family from England in 1689. Engraving by R. de Hooghe, c. 1689.
  • William of Orange attacks Louis XIV and James II, who are riding on an ass; Father Petre, confessor to the queen of England, rides on a lobster with the infant Old Pretender; Cardinal Faustenburg falls off a tortoise. Mezzotint by P. Schenck, c. 1689.
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Catalogue

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    The alliance between church and state: Or, The necessity and equity of an established religion and a test law demonstrated. In three books. The fourth edition, corrected and enlarged. By Dr. W. Warburton, lord bishop of Gloucester.

    Warburton, William, 1698-1779. | Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]
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    A dissertation upon the power of the Church; in a middle way, betwixt those who screw it up to the highest, with the Papists and Scotish Presbyterians on the one Hand; and the Erastians and followers of Hugo Grotius, who on the other Hand, do wholly reject the Intrinsic Spiritual Authority wherewith Jesus Christ hath vested the Rulers of his Church. Auct. P. M. Eccl. Scot. Direptae & Gementis Presb.

    Middleton, Patrick, 1662-1736. | Date: 1733
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    Christian submission to civil government. A discourse preached on January 30, 1780, at the Meeting-House in St. Andrew's, Cambridge. By Robert Robinson.

    Robinson, Robert, 1735-1790. | Date: (M.DCC.LXXX.) [1780]
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    An enquiry into the origin, divine authority and expediency of civil establishments of religion in general, and of Christianity in particular.

    | Date: M,DCC,XCI. [1791]
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    Candid animadversions, respecting a petition to the late General Assembly of Maryland, in behalf of the Episcopal ministers in the same. By Vindex. [Three lines of quotation]

    Allison, Patrick, 1740-1802. | Date: M.DCC.LXXXIII. [1783]
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