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A33411 St. Peter's supremacy faithfully discuss'd according to Holy Scripture and Greek and Latin fathers with a detection and confutation of the errors of Protestant writers on this article : together with a succinct handling of several other considerable points. Clenche, William. 1686 (1686) Wing C4640; ESTC R5309 132,726 227

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