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A38376 Englands apology for its late change, or, A sober persvvasive of all disaffected or dissenting persons to a seasonable engagement for the settlement of this common-vvealth drawne from the workings of providence, the state of affaires, the danger of division. 1651 (1651) Wing E2942; ESTC R20286 29,201 44

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