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A33984 Utrum horum, or, The nine and thirty articles of the Church of England, at large recited, and compared with the doctrines of those commonly called Presbyterians on the one side, and the tenets of the Church of Rome on the other both faithfully quoted from their own most approved authors / by Hen. Care. Care, Henry, 1646-1688. 1682 (1682) Wing C535; ESTC R2383 50,749 167

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