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A33335 The marrow of ecclesiastical history contained in the lives of one hundred forty eight fathers, schoolmen, first reformers and modern divines which have flourished in the Church since Christ's time to this present age : faithfully collected and orderly disposed according to the centuries wherein they lived, together with the lively effigies of most of the eminentest of them cut in copper / by Samuel Clark. Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682. 1654 (1654) Wing C4544; ESTC R27842 679,638 932

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