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A30197 Questions about the nature and perpetunity of the seventh-day Sabbath and proof that the first day of the week is the true Christian-sabbath / by John Bunyan. Bunyan, John, 1628-1688. 1685 (1685) Wing B5587; ESTC R17508 46,291 158

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