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Wicked Prayer Book (The)

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Printed 1686, octavo. The Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity reads:—

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, idolatry … they who do these things shall inherit the kingdom of God.”


(Of course, “shall inherit” should be shall not inherit.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Whole Gale (A)
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Wick, Wicked
Wicked Bible
Wicked Prayer Book (The)
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Wicket-gate
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Widow (in Hudibras)
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Widow’s Cap
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