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Four grand questions proposed, and briefly answered : wherein is discoursed, the authority and duty of the magistrate in the matters of religion, the unlawfulness of a toleration and general liberty of conscience, the divine right of Christian liberty in things indifferent, the unlawfulness of repealing the laws against Popery and idolatry.

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Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : [publisher not identified], 1689.
Series:	Early English books online.
Subjects:	Freedom of religion > Great Britain. Liberty of conscience. Church and state > England.
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