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A56210 Some popish errors, unadvisedly embraced and pursued by our anticommunion ministers wherein is discovered the dangerous effects of their discontinuing the frequent publick administration of the Lords Supper ... : with a new discovery of some Romish emmissaries, Quakers / by William Prynne of Swainswicke, Esquire ... Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1658 (1658) Wing P4085; ESTC R5157 39,850 59

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