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A30556 The true state of Christianity, truly discribed, and also discovered unto all people what it was in its beginning and purity, and what it now is in its apostacy and degeneration ... / written by ... Edward Burrough. Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662. 1658 (1658) Wing B6047; ESTC R12629 29,962 40

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