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A96073 A modest discourse, of the piety, charity & policy of elder times and Christians. Together with those their vertues paralleled by Christian members of the Church of England. / By Edward Waterhouse Esq; Waterhouse, Edward, 1619-1670. 1655 (1655) Wing W1049; Thomason E1502_2; ESTC R208656 120,565 278

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