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A50343 A vindication of the primitive church, and diocesan episcopacy in answer to Mr. Baxter's Church history of bishops, and their councils abridged : as also to some part of his Treatise of episcopacy. Maurice, Henry, 1648-1691. 1682 (1682) Wing M1371; ESTC R21664 320,021 648

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