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A37205
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The power of Congregational churches asserted and vindicated in answer to a treatise of Mr. J. Paget intituled The defence of church-government exercised in classes and synods / by John Davenport.
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Davenport, John, 1597-1670.
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Wing D362; ESTC R24876
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