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A72174 A briefe discourse of certaine points of the religion which is among the commõ sort of Christians, which may bee termed the countrie diuinitie with a manifest confutation of the same, after the order of a dialogue / compiled by George Gifforde. Gifford, George, d. 1620. 1582 (1582) STC 11846; ESTC S5348 72,465 187

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