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A15802 A consolacyon for chrysten people to repayre agayn the lordes temple with certayne places of scrypture truely applyed to satysfye theyr myndes for ye expellyng of ydolatry, [et] to instruct the[m], of loue and obedience. Compyled by nycholas wyse Wyse, Nicholas. 1538 (1538) STC 26063; ESTC S105455 46,887 142

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