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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76409	Chorotheologon or Two breife but usefull treatises, [part 2: the nature and accidents of mixt dancing] the one touching the office and quality of the ministry of the gospell. The other of the nature and accidents of mixt dancing. In this later, the questions which concern the lawfullnesse or expediency of mixed dancing are professedly handled and resolved. By Joseph Bentham. Sometimes rector of the church of Broughton in Northampton Shire, now pastour of Neather Winchingdon, in the county of Bucks.	Bentham, Joseph, 1594?-1671.	1657 (1657)	Wing B1908_pt2; Thomason E925_7; ESTC R207559	20,002	28

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