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A27066 Mr. Baxter's vindication of the Church of England in her rites and ceremonies, discipline, and church-orders as faithfully taken out of his own writings, without either false citation, or fraudulent alteration : to which is prefixed his epistle to the non-conformists, being a just and true abstract of his book entituled, A defence of the principles of love. Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. 1682 (1682) Wing B1449; ESTC R1229 17,088 43

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