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A34136
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Common-prayer-book devotions, episcopal delusions, or, The Second death of the service-book wherein the unlawfulness (with advantage) of the imposition of liturgies ... is clearly and plainly demonstrated from the Scriptures ...
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C. W.
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1666
(1666)
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Wing C5572; ESTC R35602
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