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A17636 Certaine homilies of m. Ioan Calvine conteining profitable and necessarie, admonitio[n] for this time, with an apologie of Robert Horn.; Quatre sermons. English. Selections Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.; Horne, Robert, 1519?-1580. 1553 (1553) STC 4392; ESTC S107180 57,245 120

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