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A15369 The debt book: or, A treatise vpon Romans 13. ver. 8 Wherein is handled: the ciuill debt of money or goods, and vnder it the mixt debt, as occasion is offered. Also, the sacred debt of loue. By Henry Wilkinson, Bachelor in Diuinity, and pastor of Wadesdon in Buckinghamshire. Wilkinson, Henry, 1566-1647. 1625 (1625) STC 25646; ESTC S114431 56,271 156

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