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A41720 The communicants guide directing the younger sort, which have never yet received, and the elder, and ignorant sort, which have hitherto received unworthily, how they may receive the sacrament of the Lords Supper to their souls comfort together with a treatise of divine truths, collected out of ancient and moderne divines / by R. Gove ... Gove, R. (Richard), 1587-1668. 1654 (1654) Wing G1452; ESTC R17638 26,688 79

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