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A01624 The course of Christianitie: or, As touching the dayly reading and meditation of the holy Scriptures very requisite and necessary for all Christians of what estate or condition soeuer: tvvo bookes. Translated out of Latine into English, by Iohn Ludham vicar of Wethersfeld. 1579.; De sacrae Scripturae lectione as meditatione quotidiana. English Hyperius, Andreas, 1511-1564.; Ludham, John, d. 1613. 1579 (1579) STC 11755; ESTC S120317 159,740 250

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