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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53671	A brief instruction in the worship of God, and discipline of the churches of the New Testament, by way of question and answer with an explication and confirmation of those answers.	Owen, John, 1616-1683.	1667 (1667)	Wing O721; ESTC R9489	80,905	231

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