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world_n	catholic_a	church_n	visible_a	2,933	5	9.1820	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34084	The church history clear'd from the Roman forgeries and corruptions found in the councils and Baronius in four parts : from the beginning of Christianity, to the end of the fifth general council, 553 / by Thomas Comber ...	Comber, Thomas, 1645-1699.	1695 (1695)	Wing C5491; ESTC R40851	427,618	543

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