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A28559 The doctrine of non-resistance or passive obedience, no way concerned in the controversies now depending between the Williamites and the Jacobites by a lay gentleman of the communion of the Church of England, by law establish'd. Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699. 1689 (1689) Wing B3451; ESTC R18257 35,035 42

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