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A51062 The moderate Independent proposing a word in season to the gathered churches, the Episcopal and Presbyterian parties tending to their humiliation for what is past, to be reconciled to each other for the time to come, and joyntly to acquiesse in the determinations of this present Parliament, as to the government of church & state / by Salem Philalathes ... Philalathes, Salem. 1660 (1660) Wing M2325; ESTC R16471 30,990 34

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