asserteth

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asserteth

  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative of assert
    • 1644, Iohn Cotton, The Keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven, and Power Thereof, According to the VVord of God, [] Tho. Goodwin. Philip Nye. London [] M. Simmons for Henry Overton, []:
      As hee ſuppoſeth each Congregation ſuch, as to have the priviledge of injoying a Presbyterie, or companie of more or leſſe Elders, proper unto it ſelfe; ſo being thus Presbyterated, hee aſſerteth this incorporate body or ſocietie to be the firſt and primary ſubject of a compleat and entire power within it ſelfe over its owne members; []
    • 1649, Theodorus Verax [pseudonym; Clement Walker], Anarchia Anglicana: or, The History of Independency, second part (Being a Continuation of Relations and Observations Historicall and Politique upon This Present Parliament, Begun Anno 16. Caroli Primi), pages 199–200:
      He likewiſe aſſerteth, That thoſe, who of late, ſo much blame Depoſing, are the men that did it themſelves, (meaning the Presbyterians.)
    • 1649, John Owen, Certaine Treatises, London: [] W. W. for Philemon Stephens, [], pages 57–58:
      Fourthly, Another thing that the Article aſſerteth according to the Scripture is, that there is no other cauſe of our election, but Gods own counſell, it recounteth no motives in us, nothing impelling the will of God, to choose ſome out of mankinde, rejecting others, but his own decree that is his abſolute will and good pleaſure, ſo that as there is no cauſe, in any thing without himſelfe, why he would create the world or elect any at all, for he doth all theſe things for himſelfe for the praiſe of his own glory, ſo there is no cauſe in ſingular elected perſons, why God ſhould chooſe them, rather then others; []