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A97210 The Royalist reform'd or Considerations of advice, to gentlemen, divines, lawyers. Digested into three chapters. VVherein their former mistakes are examined, and their duties of obedience, unto the present authority, succinctly held forth as rationall, and necessary. / By Albertus Warren, Gent. Warren, Albertus. 1649 (1649) Wing W954; Thomason E582_4; ESTC R204579 31,154 49

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