A survey of the summe of church-discipline : wherein the way of the churches of New-England is warranted out of the Word, and all exceptions of weight, which are made against it, answered: Whereby also it will appear to the judicious reader, that something more must be said, then yet hath been, before their principles can be shaken, or they should be unsetled in their practice (1648)

Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647 · London : Printed by A. M. for John Bellamy · leaf 470

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