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A61472 England's deliverance from the northern presbytery, compared with its deliverance from the Roman papacy by Peter Sterry, once fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, now preacher to the Right Honorable the Councell of State, sitting at White-Hall. Sterry, Peter, 1613-1672. 1652 (1652) Wing S5479; ESTC R223757 30,515 46

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