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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64337	A treatise relating to the worship of God divided into six sections / by John Templer ...	Templer, John, d. 1693.	1694 (1694)	Wing T667; ESTC R14567	247,266	554

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