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A55106 Popery and hypocrisy detected and opened from the Holy Scriptures as it respects magistrates, ministers, and people. In a sermon upon the occasion of a general fast, kept Decemb. 22. 1680. By the author of the Plotters doom, a true son of the Church of England. Palmer, Samuel, d. 1724. 1680 (1680) Wing P252; ESTC R217473 30,180 38

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