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A26468 VindiciƦ sabbathi, or, An answer to two treatises of Master Broads the one, concerning the Sabbath or seaventh day, the other, concerning the Lord's-day or first of the weeke : with a survey of all the rest which of late have written upon that subject / by George Abbot. Abbot, George, 1604-1649. 1641 (1641) Wing A66; ESTC R3974 196,378 288

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