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A67637 Suspiria Ecclesiae & reipublica Anglicanae The sighs of the Church and common-wealth of England, or, An exhortation to humiliation with a help thereunto, setting forth the great corruptions and mseries [sic] of this present church and state with the remedies that are to be applyed thereunto / by Thomas Warmstry. Warmstry, Thomas, 1610-1665. 1648 (1648) Wing W891; ESTC R27115 155,583 724

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