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A61284 Christianity indeed, or, The well-disciplin'd Christian the delight of Christ shewing how believers in Christ ought to go in and out each before other in gospel-order, governing and being governed as the children of one Father / by Fr. Stanley. Stanley, Fr. (Francis), d. 1696. 1667 (1667) Wing S5234; ESTC R37591 67,935 176

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