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A77492 An antidote against the poysonous vveeds of heretical blasphemies, which during the deplorable interval of church-government have grown up in the reforming Church of England. As it was lately presented to the Church of God at Great Yarmouth. / By Iohn Brinsley, Minister of the Gospel there. Augus. 10. 1650. Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy. Brinsley, John, 1600-1665. 1650 (1650) Wing B4705; Thomason E612_13; ESTC R206488 47,516 58

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