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A57315 A true prospect for the bishops, priests & deacons and all other within the jurisdiction of the Church of England who are professors of the common prayer, through which they may see how far they are short in faith, principle and practice of divers sound truths therin specified : also the proper right of the Quakers to divers good things therein vindicated and pleaded for ... / published by Ambrose Rigg. Rigge, Ambrose, 1635?-1705. 1663 (1663) Wing R1499; ESTC R25100 19,344 24

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