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A29505 A treatise of prayer with several useful occasional observations and some larger digressions, concerning the Judaical observation of the Lord's Day, the external worship of God, &c. / by George Bright ... G. B. (George Bright), d. 1696. 1678 (1678) Wing B4677; ESTC R1010 210,247 475

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