See earthly in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "(For many walke, of whome I haue told you often, and now tell you euen weeping, that they are the enemies of the crosse of Christ: / Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glorie is in their shame, who minde earthly things.)",
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"ref": "2016 June 10, Michael Hitzlik, “Column: Congress continues its stealth assault on Social Security’s customer service”, in Los Angeles Times:",
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"ref": "2018, Tamar M. Boyadjian, The City Lament: Jerusalem across the Medieval Mediterranean, Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, page 28:",
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"ref": "1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 315:",
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"text": "But earthlyer happy is the roſe diſtild, / Then that, vvhich, vvithering on the virgin thorne, / Grovves, liues, and dies, in ſingle bleſſedneſſe.",
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"ref": "1886, Thomas Martin McWhinney, Reason and Revelation, Hand in Hand, page 324:",
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"ref": "1927, Harriette Augusta Curtiss, The Message of Aquaria, page 431:",
"text": "Under such circumstances it is wise that church and state be separated, for such an earthly ordained priesthood has no more ability to rule wisely than have civil rulers.",
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"ref": "2010, Patricia Ann Sunday, Jimmy Swaggart: the Anointed Cherub That Covereth, page 1:",
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"text": "Qualifications are heavenly ordained, not earthly appointed; it is God Who has qualified us as saints and made us fit to share in His eternal salvation. It is not our own efforts and accomplishments that have qualified us; […]",
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"ref": "2010, Patricia Ann Sunday, Jimmy Swaggart: the Anointed Cherub That Covereth, page 1:",
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