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A13919 A goodly treatise of faith, hope, and charite necessary for all Christe[n] me[n] to know and to exercyse themselues therein tra[n]slated into englyshe; Profitelic en troostelic boexken. English. Coverdale, Miles, 1488-1568. 1537 (1537) STC 24219.5; ESTC S107348 56,528 168

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