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A33510 To the bishops and their ministers or any of them to whom this shall come ; Something by way of query which they are desired to answer in plainness and according to the Scriptures of truth Coale, Leonard.; Coale, Benjamin. 1671 (1671) Wing C4761; ESTC R29227 6,340 12

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