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Erastus Junior. Or, A fatal blovv to the clergies pretensions to divine right. : In a solid demonstration, by principles, forms of ordination, canon-laws, acts and ordinances of Parliament, and other publique acts, instruments, records, and proceedings, owned by themselves, that no bishop, nor minister, (prelatical, or Presbyterian) nor presbytery (classical, or national) hath any right or authority to preach, ... in this nation, from Christ, but onely from the Parliament. In two parts: the one demonstrating it to an episcopal, the other to a Presbyterian minister. By Josiah Web, Gent. a serious detester of the dregs of the Antichristian hierarchy yet remaining among us.

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Main Author:	Lewgar, John, 1602-1665
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : printed, and are to be sold by Livewell Chapman at the signe of the Crown in Popeshead Alley, 1660.
Series:	Early English books online.
Subjects:	Church of England > Controversial literature > Early works to 1800. Church of England > Clergy > Early works to 1800. Apostolic succession > Early works to 1800.
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