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A23672 A retraction of separation wherein VI arguments formerly erected for the service of separation upon the account of infant baptisme are taken down, and VI other arguments for saints generall communion, though of different perswasion, are erected in their room : together with a patheticall swasive to unity, peace, and concord as our generation-work in speciall / by William Allen. Allen, William, d. 1686. 1660 (1660) Wing A1071; ESTC R25232 56,266 79

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