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A54031 The consideration of a position concerning the Book of common-prayer as also of some particulars held forth for truths by one Edmund Elis, stiled a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ : with a warning of tender bowels to the rulers, teachers and people of this nation concerning their church and ministry : likewise a few words concerning the kingdom, laws and government of Christ in the heart and conscience, its inoffensiveness to all just laws and governments of the kingdoms of men / by Isaac Penington the younger. Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.; Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707. 1660 (1660) Wing P1161; ESTC R28789 24,645 40

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