Excerpt from A Full Reply to Certaine Briefe Observations and Anti-Queries on Master Prynnes Twelve Questions About Church-Government: Wherein the Frivolousnesse, Falsenesse, and Grosse Mistakes of This Anonymous Answerer (Ashamed of His Name) And His Weak Grounds for Independency, and Separation, Are Modestly Discovered, Refelled
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