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A18020
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Time complaining, giueth a most godly admonition, and very profitable instruction to England in this our dangerous tyme Whereunto is added a comfortable prayer to be vsed in this tyme. By Iohn Carpenter.
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Carpenter, John, d. 1621.
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STC 4668; ESTC S104893
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