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The works of ... vindicating the church of England, as truly christian, and duly reformed: in eight books of ecclesiastical polity. Now compleated, as with the sixth and eighth, so with the seventh, (touching episcopacy, as the primitive, catholick and apostolick government of the church) out of his own manuscripts, never before published. With an account of his holy life, and happy death (1662)

Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4-1600, Gauden, John, 1605-1662 · London : Printed by J. Best, for Andrew Crook · leaf 472

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