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cause_n authority_n law_n power_n 2,481 5 4.8394 4 true
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A02610 A sermon preached in the cittie of Glasco in Scotland, on the tenth day of Iune, 1610 At the holding of a generall assembly there. By Christopher Hampton, Doctor in Diuinitie, and chaplaine to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie. Hampton, Christopher, 1552-1625. 1611 (1611) STC 12739; ESTC S103775 17,702 37

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