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A38579 A prospect of the primitive Christianity, as it was left by Christ to his Apostles, by the Apostles to their disciples Saint Polycarp and Holy Ignatius, both contemporaries with and disciples to the Holy Evangelist and Apostle Saint John whose lives follow in this short treatise, together with their famous epistles written to several churches / translated according to the best copies out of the original Greek into English, by Thomas Elborowe ... Elborow, Thomas.; Polycarp, Saint, Bishop of Smyrna. Epistola ad Philippenses. English.; Ignatius, Saint, Bishop of Antioch, d. ca. 110. Epistolae. English. 1668 (1668) Wing E323; ESTC R15095 56,995 138

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