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A34096 An exhortation of the churches of Bohemia to the Church of England wherein is set forth the good of unity, order, discipline, and obedience in churches rightly now, or to be constituted : with a description premised of the order and discipline used in the churches of the Brethren of Bohemia / by J. Amos Commenius. Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670. 1661 (1661) Wing C5507; ESTC R27266 107,538 185

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