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A discourse of the abuses novv in question in the churches of Christ : of their creeping in, growing vp, and flowrishing in the Babilonish Church of Rome, how they are spoken against not only by the scriptures, but also by the ancient fathers as long as there remayned any face of a true Church maintained by publique authority, and likewise by the lights of the Gospell, and blessed martyrs of late in the middest of the antichristian darknes. By Thomas Whetenhall Esquier.

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Main Author:	Whetenhall, Thomas
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[England] : Imprinted [at William Jones's secret press], 1606.
Series:	Early English books online.
Subjects:	Catholic Church > Controversial literature > Early works to 1800. Church of England. > Controversial literature > Puritan authors > Early works to 1800.
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