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A92843 Englands condition parralelld with Iacobs for [brace] troubles. Salvations. Hopes. Laid open in two sermons, lately preached at Marlborough in Wilts. By Iohn Sedgwick, Batchelour in Divinity and Pastor of the Church at Alphage neere Cripplegate, London. Sedgwick, John, 1600 or 1601-1643. 1642 (1642) Wing S2360; Thomason E115_23; ESTC R18288 48,093 63

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