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church_n	doctrine_n	faith_n	fundamental_a	4,018	5	9.9481	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07535	Concerning imposition of hands A sermon a the Lord Archbishop his visitation metropolitical, held, at Saint Marie Cray in Kent, by the Bishop of Rochester his Graces commissioner, the 7 of September last, preached by Richard Milborne Doctor of Diuinitie, and parson of Seuenoke in Kent.	Milbourne, Richard, d. 1624.	1607 (1607)	STC 17917; ESTC S100306	14,523	52

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