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S. Well then, muſt the ſervant of God having prayed, and uſed thoſe means, hope and be aſſured that that which be thus prayes for ſhall be granted him? C. Yes: either formally, or by way of æquivalence; either that, or ſomething that is better; or again, either now, or when God ſees fitter for him:[…]

1655, H[enry] Hammond, A Practical Catechism, the sixth edition, London: […] J. F. for R. Royston, page 57

Whatever thou wanteſt or deſireſt, leave it to God, make all thy applications to him, and depend on him, that he will either give thee in kinde what thou deſireſt, or by æquivalence ſomewhat that is better for thee.

1659, H[enry] Hammond, A Paraphrase and Annotations upon the Books of the Psalms, Briefly Explaining the Difficulties Thereof, London: […] R. Norton, for Richard Davis, page 194

Æquivalence we call an equality as to belief or unbelief; ſo as neither of the repugnant ſpeeches is preferred as more credible than the other.[…]We affirm not, they are incomprehenſible in their own nature, but declare our own affection, that we conceive we underſtand them not, by reaſon of the æquivalence of contraries.

1659, Thomas Stanley, The History of Philosophy, the Fourth Part: Containing the Sceptick Sect, London: […] Humphrey Moseley and Thomas Dring, pages 8 and 29

I anſwer, Although the matter of them be not in terminis, found in Scripture, yet the ſenſe of them according to æquivalence may, as well as Tranſubſtantiation, when you will endevour to make it out by Scripture.

1661, J[ohn] S[herman], An Account of Faith, in Answer to Two Papers and Two Treatises of a Roman Catholick about the Ground Thereof, London: […] W. Godbid, for Richard Skelton, page 124

Finally, a more profound knowledge of the details of the processes of fertilization has been obtained, including the structure of the nucleus and its cleavage phenomena, the discovery of the fusion of germ- and sperm-nucleus, the æquivalence of the male and female nuclear substances and their distribution among the resulting daughter cells, and especially a deeper insight into the complicated phenomena of germ- and sperm-maturation which cause the reduction of the original nuclear substance.

1897 January, Richard C. Schiedt, “The Material Basis of Inheritance and the Problem of Evil.—(First Part.)”, in The Reformed Church Review, number 1, fourth series, volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Reformed Church Publication Board, page 103