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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23061	A right Christian treatise, entituled S. Augustines praiers: published in more ample sort than yet it hath bin in the English tong; purged from diuers superstitious points; and adorned with manifold places of the S. Scripture, by Thomas Rogers. Wherevnto is annexed Saint Augustines psalter: translated and quoted by the same T.R.; S. Augustines praiers.	Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.; Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616.	1581 (1581)	STC 950; ESTC S100329	79,739	249

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cap._n 40._o again_o 40._o again_o medit._fw-la cap._n 40._o omnibus_fw-la etiam_fw-la christianis_fw-la defunctis_fw-la adiutorium_fw-la praestare_fw-la digneris_fw-la &_o defunctis_fw-la fidelibus_fw-la absolutionem_fw-la &_o requiem_n sempiternam_fw-la per_fw-la aeterna_fw-la saecula_fw-la of_o the_o late_a sort_n be_v these_o especialie_n commit_v seape_n unwittinglie_o commit_v and_o such_o like_a word_n in_o one_o chapter_n 6._o chapter_n medit._fw-la cap._n 6._o respice_fw-la clementissime_fw-la rex_fw-la qui_fw-la patitur_fw-la &_o reminiscere_fw-la benignus_fw-la pro_fw-la quo_fw-la patitur_fw-la etc._n etc._n candet_fw-la nudum_fw-la pectus_fw-la rubet_fw-la cruentum_fw-la latus_fw-la tensa_fw-la arent_fw-la vescera_fw-la etc._n etc._n and_o these_o and_o such_o like_a in_o another_o 7._o another_o medit._fw-la cap._n 7._o ego_fw-la iniquè_fw-fr egi_fw-la tu_fw-la poena_fw-la mulctaris_fw-la ego_fw-la crimen_fw-la edidi_fw-la tu_fw-la torturae_fw-la subijceris_fw-la ego_fw-la 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