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A77072 The spirit of prelacie, yet working. Or, Truth from under a cloud, in a relation, of that great, and publike contestation had in Glocester, July, 1644. Written then, and now published, as it were of necessity. Together, with a postscript, containing some generall and perticular observations, upon Master Edwards his Gangræna. / By Robert Bacon, M.A. minister of the Gospel. Bacon, Robert, M.A. 1646 (1646) Wing B370; Thomason E334_5; ESTC R9476 30,348 42

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