consentient

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Sound in doctrine according to the consentient testimony of Scripture and the Church.

From The Church Handy Dictionary by Anonymous

No such evidence exists for the lions; for the phenomena of so-called spiritualism, we have consentient testimony in every land, period and stage of culture. 

From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Lang, Andrew

It will be admitted that the consentient testimony of persons in every stage of belief and prejudice, of ignorance and learning, cannot agree, as it does agree, by virtue of some "fluctuation of public opinion".

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew

Not that even these seven so-called consentient witnesses are in complete accord among themselves.

From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William

It seems impossible to represent in human speech, or by any symbols intelligible to the human mind, the variety and immensity of this consentient testimony of all historic time and place.

From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by Smith, William Benjamin