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A36365 A familiar guide to the right and profitable receiving of the Lord's Supper wherein also the way and method of our salvation is briefly and plainly declar'd / by Theophilus Dorrington. Dorrington, Theophilus, d. 1715. 1695 (1695) Wing D1936; ESTC R12791 66,224 212

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