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A50252 A defence of the Protestant Christian religion against popery: in answer to A discourse of a Roman Catholick Wherein the manifold apostaties, heresies, and schisms of the chruch of Rome, as also, the weakness of her pretensions from the scriptures and the fathers, are briefly laid open: by an English Protestant. Mather, Samuel, 1626-1671. 1672 (1672) Wing M1278; ESTC R217670 45,074 64

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