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A00730 Certaine plaine, briefe, and comfortable notes vpon euerie chapter of Genesis Gathered and laid downe for the good of them that are not able to vse better helpes, and yet carefull to read the worde, and right heartilie desirous to taste the sweete of it. By the Reuerend Father Geruase Babington, Bishop of Landaph. Babington, Gervase, 1550-1610. 1592 (1592) STC 1086; ESTC S100811 308,840 390

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