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A80547 The perfect-law of God being a sermon, and no sermon;-: preach'd,-, and yet not preach'd;-: in a-church, but not in a-church; to a people, that are not a people-. / By Richard Carpenter. Wherein also, he gives his first alarum to his brethren of the presbytery; as being his-brethren, but not his-brethren. Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670? 1652 (1652) Wing C625; Thomason E1318_1; ESTC R210492 112,779 261

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