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A41707 The primitive Christian justified and Jack Presbyter reproved, or, A scripture demonstration, that to be innocent and persecuted is more eligible than to be prosperously wicked delivered in a sermon in the Abby-Church of Bath by William Goulde. Gould, William, d. 1686. 1682 (1682) Wing G1441; ESTC R9434 18,041 33

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