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church_n	bishop_n	call_v	ephesus_n	3,782	5	11.2037	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43040	The sectaries downfall: or, A treatise of the calling of ministers Wherein the orthodox clergie are approved to be the onely true and lawfull pastors of the Church of God. That all others besides them, (pretend what they please) for their usurping the ministry, without any lawfull call, are but thieves and robbers, and seducers of the people. By William Harvey, minister of the Gospell of Iesus Christ.	Harvey, William, fl. 1657-1705.	1655 (1655)	Wing H1093A; ESTC R218427	16,757	49

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