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A30587 Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and evils of them : with cautions that we may not be hurt by them, and endeavours to heal them / by Jeremiah Burroughes. Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646. 1653 (1653) Wing B6089; ESTC R36312 263,763 330

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