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A42790 Three sermons preached in Lent and summer assizes last at Lancaster, and on one of the Lords days in the late Guild of Preston : wherein the nature of subjection to the civil magistrate is explained, the duty proved, and the clergy justified in pressing the same upon their fellow-subjects / by Thomas Gipps. Gipps, Thomas, d. 1709. 1683 (1683) Wing G783; ESTC R27382 51,822 90

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