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lord_n day_n let_v sabbath_n 10,277 5 9.9520 5 false
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A00467 A brothers gift containing an hundred precepts, instructing all sorts of people to a godly, honest, and morall life. Everinden, Humphrey. 1623 (1623) STC 10601; ESTC S114633 13,510 42

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