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A25464 Pater noster, Our Father, or, The Lord's prayer explained the sense thereof and duties therein from Scripture, history, and fathers, methodically cleared and succinctly opened at Edinburgh / by Will Annand. Annand, William, 1633-1689. 1670 (1670) Wing A3223; ESTC R27650 279,663 493

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