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A52857 An English inquisition for a heretick Or, The punishment due to hereticks. Together with the nature and causes of heresie. Declared in a sermon preached at a visitation at Ware, upon the 19th. of April 1672. By Robert Neville, B.D. late Fellow of Kings-Colledge in Cambridge, and now Rector of Ansty in the county of Hertford. Neville, Robert, 1640 or 1-1694. 1673 (1673) Wing N519; ESTC R220263 15,927 31

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