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A64647 The great necessity of unity and peace among all Protestants, and the bloody principles of the papists made manifest by the most eminently pious and learned Bishop Usher ... Ussher, James, 1581-1656. 1688 (1688) Wing U178; ESTC R23183 27,278 20

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