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A77901 Poimēnopurgos. Pastorum propugnaculum. Or, The pulpits patronage against the force of un-ordained usurpation, and invasion. By Thomas Ball, sometimes Fellow of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, now minister of the Gospel in Northampton, at the request, and by the advice, of very many of his neighbour-ministers. Ball, Thomas, 1589 or 90-1659. 1656 (1656) Wing B584; Thomason E863_10; ESTC R206670 204,465 356

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