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A10037 Duties of communicants, or a treatise, teaching such as purpose to receiue the sacrament of the Lords Supper how they may rightly carrie themselues, before, in, and after the action of receiuing. By R: Preston, preacher of Gods Word at Rushden in Northampton-shire. Preston, Richard, d. ca. 1624. 1621 (1621) STC 20284; ESTC S100877 48,394 185

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