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A47150 Help in time of need from the God of help to the people of the (so called) Church of Scotland, especially the once more zealous and professing, who have so shamefully degenerated and declined from that which their fathers the primitive Protestants attained unto ... / writ by George Keith, prisoner for the truth in Aberdeen in the latter end of the year 1664. Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Jaffray, Alexander, 1614-1673. 1665 (1665) Wing K173; ESTC R36221 73,094 85

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