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A30992 The authority of church-guides asserted in a sermon preach'd before our Late Gracious Sovereign King Charles II, at Whitehall, Octob. 17, 1675 / by Miles Barne ... Barne, Miles, d. 1709? 1685 (1685) Wing B856; ESTC R12523 19,284 35

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