Selected quad for the lemma: power_n

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power_n	bishop_n	call_v	presbyter_n	3,415	5	10.3134	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34903	An answer to a late book intituled, A discourse concerning the inventions of men in the worship of God, by William, Lord Bishop of Derry wherein the author's arguments against the manner of publick worship performed by Protestant dissenters are examined and by plain Scripture and reason confuted, his mistakes as to matters of fact detected, and some important truths concerning the spirit of prayer and external adoration, &c. vindicated / by Robert Craghead ...	Craghead, Robert.	1694 (1694)	Wing C6793; ESTC R7154	118,658	170

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