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A66373 A brief discourse concerning the lawfulness of worshipping God by the common-prayer being an answer to a book entituled A brief discourse concerning the unlawfulness of the common-prayer worship lately printed in New-England, and re-printed in London, in which the chief things objected against the liturgy, are consider'd. Williams, John, 1636?-1709. 1694 (1694) Wing W2683; ESTC R203 34,319 42

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