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A02461 A sermon principally entreating of the crosse in Baptisme wherein also it is proued, against the vnaduised reprouers, that it is no popish error, to say; that Austine sent from Gregorie the Great, was the conuerter of the English in this iland: and further that the Britaines did not receiue their first faith from the Church of Rome. By R. H. D. Hacket, Roger, 1559-1621. 1606 (1606) STC 12591; ESTC S117906 24,790 63

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