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A37981 The watch-mans lanthorn being a summ of divinity in a short but very plaine exposition of the Ten commandments, the Lords prayer, and the Creed : fittest to the meanest capacity in a nature of a dialogue / by A.E. A. E., a servant of Jesus Christ. 1655 (1655) Wing E2; ESTC R25569 96,065 185

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