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A47083 Of the heart and its right soveraign, and Rome no mother-church to England, or, An historical account of the title of our British Church, and by what ministry the Gospel was first planted in every country with a remembrance of the rights of Jerusalem above, in the great question, where is the true mother-church of Christians? / by T.J. Jones, Thomas, 1622?-1682. 1678 (1678) Wing J996_VARIANT; ESTC R39317 390,112 653

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