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A93437 The doome of heretiques: or, A discovery of subtle foxes, who were tyed tayle to tayle, and crept into the Church to doe mischiefe. As it was delivered in a sermon at Wickham-Market in Suffolke, upon the fast day, being the 26 of May. 1647. / By Zeph: Smyth, minister of Gods Word. Imprimatur, Ia: Cranford, August 22. 1648. Smyth, Zeph. (Zephaniah), fl. 1646-1648. 1648 (1648) Wing S4363; Thomason E467_7; ESTC R204204 27,627 23

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