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A08238 Chronologia sacra By the high ... Doctor Phil. Nicolai. lib. 2. de regno Christi. Shortly collected and augmented by Neils Michelsone. Cum priuilegio S. R. Maj. Newly translated out of the Germans and Dence tongue into English, by David Forbes. Pervsed, and accompanied with a short treatise and exhortation tending to repentance; Chronologia sacra. English Nicolai, Philipp, 1556-1608.; Michelsone, Neils, ed. and trans.; Forbes, David, of Edinburgh.; Arthus, Gotthard, b. 1568. 1630 (1630) STC 18572; ESTC S106265 30,699 106

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