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A95776 The reduction of episcopacie unto the form of synodical government received in the ancient Church: proposed in the year 1641. as an expedient for the prevention of those troubles, which afterwards did arise about the matter of church-government. / By the most reverend and learned father of our Church Dr. James Usher, late Arch-Bishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland. A true copy set forth by Nicolas Bernard, D.D. preacher to the Honourable Society of Grayes Inne occasioned by an imperfect copy lately printed. Ussher, James, 1581-1656.; Bernard, Nicholas, d. 1661. 1656 (1656) Wing U217; Thomason E897_1; ESTC R203884 4,766 13

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