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Certaine fruitfull instructions and necessary doctrines meete to edify in the feare of God faithfully gathered together by Iohn Frewen ... ; whereunto is added a table, wherein the reader may easily find out the principall matters conteined in this booke.
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Frewen, John, 1558-1628.
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STC 11379.5; ESTC S4308
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