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...indicated moderation and modesty for the rescue of the Old German freedom The traditional rights and liberties of the German princes and estates within the Holy Roman Empire, often championed against imperial overreach. and the preservation of the Evangelical religion The Protestant faith, specifically referencing the Lutheran and Reformed traditions., as well as for the discovery of the innocence of many honest people, it must necessarily be cited and carried out; so that the same will not, should not, or cannot be taken poorly by anyone, nor interpreted or construed to anyone’s disadvantage or danger.

With these things having been premised original: His præmissis, the kind-hearted reader is reminded that the present report and response (in which the leaves or pages of the Bavarian-Anhaltine Chancery referring to the Anhaltische Kanzlei, a famous piece of Catholic propaganda that published seized diplomatic documents to frame the Protestants for starting the Thirty Years' War, according to the third and corrected edition original: secundùm editionem tertiam, & correctiorem, as it is called, namely printed in the year 1621, are cited) has been divided into two parts; and in the first part, the following chapters original: Capita and points of the

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