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A17244 The vvhole summe of Christian religion, giuen forth by two seuerall methodes or formes the one higher, for the better learned, the other applyed to the capacitie of the common multitude, and meete for all: yet both of them such, as in some respect do knit them selues together in one. By Edmund Bunny Bacheler of Diuinitie. Bunny, Edmund, 1540-1619. 1576 (1576) STC 4096; ESTC S118853 72,840 176

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