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The lay-clergy: or, The lay-elder. : In a short essay in answer to this query; whether it be lawful for persons in holy orders to exercise temporal offices, honours, jurisdictions and authorities. With arguments and objections on both sides, poyz'd, and indifferently weigh'd

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1695.
Call number: 33499
Creator: Hickeringill, Edmund (1631-1708)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 4to
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