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A62171
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The infancy of elders a short treatise composed for vindication of the Christian liberty of freeborne denizens of England, or A refutation of the tyrannicall unlawfull mis-government of our church by lay-elders / written by J.S. minister of the Word in Lancashire.
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J. S., Minister of the Word in Lancashire.
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1647
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Wing S68; ESTC R8376
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