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Concerning publike-prayer, and the fasts of the Church Six sermons, or tractates. By Io. Br. B.D. Their severall contents are set downe in the next page.
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Browning, John, d. 1648.
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ostendit_fw-la quin_fw-la &_o s._n chrysostomus_n in_o 1_o ad_fw-la tim._n 1._o hom._n 3._o graeci_fw-la autem_fw-la ubi_fw-la die_v ãâã_d ãâã_d ãâã_d ãâã_d ãâã_d indixerunt_fw-la suis_fw-la pascha_fw-la nuncuparunt_fw-la uti_fw-la etiamnum_fw-la in_o corum_fw-la officijs_fw-la videre_fw-la est_fw-la s._n chrysostom_n id_fw-la satis_fw-la evidenter_fw-la etiam_fw-la hom._n in_fw-la eos_fw-la qui_fw-la pascha_fw-la jejunant_fw-la hom._n 52._o de_fw-la diversis_fw-la n._n testam_fw-la verb._n h._n ãâã_d ãâã_d ãâã_d ãâã_d ãâã_d scil._n dominicâ_fw-la quartâ_fw-la sabbati_fw-la &_o parasceve_v ãâã_d ãâã_d ãâã_d ãâã_d ãâã_d sc._n in_o sabbato_fw-la vel_fw-la in_o martyrum_fw-la festis_fw-la ãâã_d ãâã_d ãâã_d ãâã_d ãâã_d de_fw-fr quotidiano_fw-la a._n sacrificio_fw-la s._n chrysostom_n pluribus_fw-la quidem_fw-la in_o locis_fw-la e.g._n hom._n 3._o in_o ephes_n 1._o &_o hom._n 17._o in_o heb._n 6._o etc._n etc._n wednesday_n and_o friday_n meeting_n be_v appoint_v for_o they_o which_o can_v 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