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A14660 The English pharise, or religious ape Being the weekes worke of a poore vnlearned professor of the gospell of Christ, zealously and truely checking the counterfeit professor, but open persecutor of Christs true doctrine and disicpline. By Iohn Walker, dwelling at Leeds in Yorkshire. Walker, John, dwelling at Leeds in Yorkshire. 1616 (1616) STC 24962; ESTC S102097 38,058 238

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