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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.

1601–1700

The Seventeenth Century

1 work

1662

English

The Book of Common Prayer of 1662

The Church of England

The restoration prayer book, essentially Cranmer's with small revisions, imposed by an Act of Uniformity that ejected some two thousand ministers who would not use it.

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